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How to pronounce lick in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms lap, lap up
Type of imbibe, drink


the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast.
Type Words
Synonyms lap
Type of touching, touch
Type Words
Synonyms lap
Type of stroke
Has types tongue


the dog licked her hand.
Type Words
Synonyms biff, clout, poke, punch, slug
Type of blow
Has types sunday punch, hook, haymaker, parry, rabbit punch, jab, sucker punch, counter, counterpunch, knockout punch, ko punch
Type Words
Synonyms figure out, puzzle out, solve, work, work out
Type of understand
Has types guess, infer, resolve, riddle, strike, answer, break
Type Words
Synonyms salt lick
Type of sediment, deposit
Type Words
Synonyms bat, clobber, cream, drub, thrash
Type of trounce, shell, beat, crush, beat out, vanquish
Verb group thrash, flail, lam, thresh


We licked the other team on Sunday!.

Examples of lick

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Lawson said elk also like to lick the de-icing salt off the roads in the winter.
From the kentucky.com
Worst of all don't cheer old tyres up with a lick of tyre paint, it looks tacky.
From the cars.uk.msn.com
If BIG OIL had a lick of sense, they'be the one's leading the way in this field.
From the latimes.com
He can probably lick them from the nine, but I don't want the eight or the nine.
From the post-gazette.com
Why do liberals whine about jobs when you cannot get a lick of work out of them?
From the orlandosentinel.com
Even GOP rival Newt Gingrich, ever bitter about Romney's success, got in a lick.
From the swampland.time.com
The best was when it all ended and everybody could go home and lick their wounds.
From the kansas.com
Perhaps they can lick the Rays, if they meet in the League Championship Series.
From the washingtonpost.com
My plans are to lick this cancer but it will probably take four or five months.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
More examples
  • Cream: beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!"
  • Salt lick: a salt deposit that animals regularly lick
  • Pass the tongue over; "the dog licked her hand"
  • Touching with the tongue; "the dog's laps were warm and wet"
  • Punch: (boxing) a blow with the fist; "I gave him a clout on his nose"
  • Solve: find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of; "did you solve the problem?"; "Work out your problems with the boss"; "this unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out"; "did you get it?"; "Did you get my meaning?"; "He could not work the math problem"
  • Lick is the third album by The Lemonheads and the last to feature founding member Ben Deily. It was released in 1989 and was the group's last album before signing to major label Atlantic. ...
  • Lick was a band on Chicago's Invisible Records in the 1990s. Members have played with Pigface, The Final Cut, Project Elf, Sister Machine Gun and more.
  • Lick is a lunar crater that has been flooded with basaltic lava. The north rim is attached to the smaller, bowl-shaped crater Greaves. Lick lies on the southwest edge of Mare Crisium. Its rim is broken at the north and south ends, and the southwest rim is attached to the crater remnant Lick A...