lips

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Meaning

plural of lip

bank of river

labia oris

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/lɪps/

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lip

<tabs><tab title="Noun"><p><ol><li>Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.</li><li>A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.</li><li>The projecting rim of an open container or a bell, etc.; a short open spout.</li><li>(slang) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.</li><li>The edge of a high spot of land.</li><li>The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.</li><li>One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.</li><li>A distinctive lower-appearing of the three true petals of an orchid.</li><li>One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.</li><li>(colloquial) Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.</li><li>(colloquial) Short for lipstick.</li></ol></p></tab><tab title="Verb"><p><ol><li>To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).</li><li>(of something inanimate) To touch lightly.</li><li>To wash against a surface, lap.</li><li>To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.</li><li>To form the rim, edge or margin of something.</li><li>To utter verbally.</li><li>To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.</li><li>To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.</li><li>To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.</li></ol></p></tab></tabs>

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