lick has definitions from the fields of sport,boxing,sexuality
1
[ verb ] beat thoroughly in a competition or fight

Synonyms

clobber drub thrash bat

Examples

"We licked the other team on Sunday!"

Related terms

beat thrash

2
[ verb ] (sexuality) pass the tongue over

Synonyms

lap

Examples

"the dog licked her hand"

Used in print

(Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)

`` Chicken '' , Mose said , and theatrically licked his lips .

He licked his lips again .

(Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)

And the forked tongue of gossip licked its sinister way from back_porch to back_porch .

Related terms

stroke tongue

3
[ verb ] find the solution to (a problem or question):"did you solve the problem?"; understand the meaning of

Examples

"did you get it?" "Did you get my meaning?" "He could not work the math problem"

Used in print

(Alfred Wright, "A Duel Golfers Will Never Forget"...)

`` Just when you think you have it licked , this golf_course can get_up and bite you '' , Player had said one afternoon midway through the tournament .

4
[ noun ] touching with the tongue

Synonyms

lap

Examples

"the dog's laps were warm and wet"

Related terms

touch lap

5
[ noun ] a salt deposit that animals regularly lick

Synonyms

salt_lick

Related terms

sediment

6
[ verb ] take up with the tongue

Synonyms

lap_up lap

Examples

"The cat lapped up the milk" "the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast"

Related terms

drink

7
[ noun ] (boxing) a blow with the fist

Synonyms

punch clout biff poke

Examples

"I gave him a clout on his nose"

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