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Definition lip
Etymology
From Middle English lippe, from Old English lippa, lippe (�lip�), from Proto-Germanic *lipj� (�lip�), from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (�to hang loosely, droop, sag�). Cognate with West Frisian lippe (�lip�), Dutch lip (�lip�), German Lippe and Lefze (�lip�), Swedish l�pp (�lip�), Norwegian leppe (�lip�), Latin labium (�lip�).
Noun
lip (countable and uncountable, plural lips)
- (countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
- (countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
- (by extension, countable) The projecting rim of an open container; a short open spout.
- (slang, uncountable) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
- The edge of a high spot of land.
- The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
- (botany) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
- (botany) The distinctive petal of the Orchis family.
- (zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
- (music, colloquial) Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
Verb
lip (third-person singular simple present lips, present participle lipping, simple past and past participle lipped)
- (transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
- (transitive, figuratively) (of something inanimate) To touch lightly.
- (intransitive, transitive) To wash against a surface, lap.
- (intransitive) To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
- (transitive) To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
- (transitive) To utter verbally.
- (transitive) To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
- (sports) To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
- (transitive, music) To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.
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