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Lick   /lɪk/   Listen
Lick

verb
(past & past part. licked; pres. part. licking)
1.
Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight.  Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, drub, thrash.
2.
Pass the tongue over.  Synonym: lap.
3.
Find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of.  Synonyms: figure out, puzzle out, solve, work, work out.  "Work out your problems with the boss" , "This unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out" , "Did you get it?" , "Did you get my meaning?" , "He could not work the math problem"
4.
Take up with the tongue.  Synonyms: lap, lap up.  "The cub licked the milk from its mother's breast"
noun
1.
A salt deposit that animals regularly lick.  Synonym: salt lick.
2.
Touching with the tongue.  Synonym: lap.
3.
(boxing) a blow with the fist.  Synonyms: biff, clout, poke, punch, slug.



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"Lick" Quotes from Famous Books



... am utterly conscious that no Man has so good a Right to repose in it, as yourself. Therefore, dear, good good Mr. Pope, be seated!... Whether you call me Dunce or Doctor, whether you like me, or lick me, contemn, jerk, or praise me, you will still find me the same merry Monarch I was before you did me the Honour to put yourself out of ...
— Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles • Daniel Hack Tuke

... bit, captain. They are sure to have a lot of redskins with them, and they will be lurking in the woods, in hopes that we may try such a move. No; we have got a strong position here, and can lick them three to one; but in the woods, except Stark's men, and perhaps yours, none of the others wouldn't ...
— With Wolfe in Canada - The Winning of a Continent • G. A. Henty

... once incredulous and disappointed. "Surely that's not thy best lick, lad," he said, in an aggrieved tone; "why, old as I am, I could better it mysel'." Thus saying, the miner drew back a fist like a sledge-hammer, and let drive a blow at "Blacky" that sent the pointer up ...
— The Copper Princess - A Story of Lake Superior Mines • Kirk Munroe

... many a mountain pass'd and valley wide, Then reach'd the wild; where, in a flowery nook, And seated on a mossy stone, he spied An ancient man: his harp lay him beside. A stag sprang from the pasture at his call, And, kneeling, lick'd the wither'd hand that tied A wreath of woodbine round his antlers tall, And hung his lofty neck with many a ...
— The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer - With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes • Rev. George Gilfillan [Ed.]

... "You are not worth taking—guess you'll keep till we lick the Yanks," and walking around the helpless officer he ...
— Westways • S. Weir Mitchell


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