Definitions for lipped

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Spelling: [lipt]

IPA: /lɪpt/

Lipped is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in lipped (deilpp).

Definitions for lipped

noun

1. either of the two fleshy parts or folds forming the margins of the mouth and functioning in speech.
2. Usually, lips. these parts as organs of speech:
3. a projecting edge on a container or other hollow object:
4. a liplike part or structure, especially of anatomy.
5. any edge or rim.
6. the edge of an opening or cavity, as of a canyon or a wound:
7. Slang. impudent talk; back talk:
8. Botany. either of the two parts into which the corolla or calyx of certain plants, especially of the mint family, is divided.
9. Zoology. a labium. the outer or the inner margin of the aperture of a gastropod's shell.
10. Music. the position and arrangement of lips and tongue in playing a wind instrument; embouchure.
11. the cutting edge of a tool.
12. the blade, at the end of an auger, which cuts the chip after it has been circumscribed by the spur.
13. (in a twist drill) the cutting edge at the bottom of each flute.

Idioms

1. bite one's lip / tongue, to repress one's anger or other emotions:
2. button one's lip, Slang. to keep silent, especially, to refrain from revealing information: Also, button up.
3. hang on the lips of, to listen to very attentively:
4. keep a stiff upper lip, to face misfortune bravely and resolutely: to suppress the display of any emotion.
5. smack one's lips, to indicate one's keen enjoyment or pleasurable anticipation of:

adjective

1. having lips or a lip.
2. Botany. labiate.
3. of or relating to the lips or a lip:
4. characterized by or made with the lips:
5. superficial or insincere:

Verb phrases

1. lip off, Slang. to talk impudently or belligerently.

verb (used with object)

1. to touch with the lips.
2. Golf. to hit the ball over the rim of (the hole).
3. to utter, especially softly.
4. to kiss.

verb (used without object)

1. to use the lips in playing a musical wind instrument.

Origin of lipped

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at lip, -ed³

Examples for lipped

A large tube is sealed at the bottom and the top is lipped, as in making a test-tube.

He lipped the words, but his dry throat would not voice them.

Have you seen the primal dew ere the sun has lipped the pearl?

Miss Kennedy lipped her cup again, raised, drank a sip and gigglegiggled.

Then they dragged him away; but not before he had seen King at the window, and had lipped a silent threat.

It was full of turbid water which lipped to the very brim, and the clay which dammed up the broken wall was sodden and dripping.

It is lipped by the Babel of the living world; he is ever on the stage, and the spectators are ever ready to applaud.

For wrought iron the cutter should be lipped, and oil or soapy water should be supplied to it during the operation.

Yet a fourth time it clambered up again, and this time it lipped the brink and poured over the intrenchment at the top.

A lipped cylinder that holds a little over a gill is the best size.