lick
noun
1. a salt deposit that animals regularly lick
Definition categories: object, deposit, sediment
2. touching with the tongue
Similar word(s): lap
Definition categories: act, touch, touching
3. (boxing) a blow with the fist
Similar word(s): biff, clout, poke, punch, slug
Definition categories: act, blow
Sentences with lick as a noun:
- The cat gave its fur a lick.
- Give me a lick of ice cream.
- a lick of paint; to put on colours with a lick of the brush
- The birds gathered at the clay lick.
- We used to play in the lick.
- Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer.
- You don't have a lick of sense.
- I didn't do a lick of work today.
- There are some really good blues licks in this solo.
- The bus was travelling at a good lick when it swerved and left the road.
verb
1. beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
- We licked the other team on Sunday!
Similar word(s): bat, clobber, cream, drub, thrash
Definition categories: contact, beat, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
2. pass the tongue over
- the dog licked her hand
Similar word(s): lap
Definition categories: contact, stroke
3. find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
Definition categories: cognition, understand
4. take up with the tongue
- the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast
Similar word(s): lap
Definition categories: consumption, drink, imbibe
Sentences with lick as a verb:
- The cat licked its fur.
- My dad can lick your dad.
- I think I can lick this.