Definitions for licks

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licks lick

Spelling: [lik]

IPA: /lɪk/

Licks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in licks (cikls).

Definitions for licks

noun

1. a stroke of the tongue over something.
2. as much as can be taken up by one stroke of the tongue.
3. salt lick.
4. Informal. a blow. a brief, brisk burst of activity or energy. a quick pace or clip; speed. a small amount:
5. Usually, licks. a critical or complaining remark.
6. Usually, licks. Jazz Slang. a musical phrase, as by a soloist in improvising.

Idioms

1. last licks, a final turn or opportunity:
2. lick and a promise, a hasty and perfunctory performance in doing something:
3. lick ass, Slang: Vulgar. kiss (def 18).
4. lick into shape, Informal. to bring to completion or perfection through discipline, hard work, etc.:
5. lick one's chops. chop3 (def 7).
6. lick one's wounds. wound1 (def 6).
7. lick the dust. dust (def 24).

Verb phrases

1. lick up, to lap up; devour greedily.

verb (used with object)

1. to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.):
2. to make, or cause to become, by stroking with the tongue:
3. (of waves, flames, etc.) to pass or play lightly over:
4. Informal. to hit or beat, especially as a punishment; thrash; whip. to overcome or defeat, as in a fight, game, or contest. to outdo or surpass.

verb (used without object)

1. to move quickly or lightly.

Origin of licks

before 1000; Middle English; Old English liccian, cognate with Old Saxon liccōn, Old High German leckōn; akin to Go bilaigon, Latin lingere, Greek leíchein to lick (up)

Examples for licks

Ye know how 'tis—the licker an' the stuff to eat cleaned me out.

Said he never would have sold him if he hadn't been in licker.

But thar's two gallons of licker in hit an' thet's wuth money.

In silence he drinks his licker, an' then sets down at a table.

I've give a heap of study in my time to this question of licker drams.

Me, I tote my own licker an' they don't take that off 'n my hip.

You don't mean to say that you have had that licker for several days?

I asked the party in, an' I pay for what licker we drink—be thunder!

I'm not sayin' the world wouldn't be better off if there wasn't any licker to drink.

There'll be licker down there, an' it'll sure be quickfire licker at that.