lick

Definitions

1. verb

   To stroke with the tongue.

   Example

   • The cat licked its fur.
2. verb

   To lap; to take in with the tongue.

   Examples

   • She licked the last of the honey off the spoon before washing it.
   • Jim closed his eyes and licked his vanilla ice cream cone.
3. verb

   To beat with repeated blows.

   Example

   • "What a curious kind of a fool a girl is! Never been licked in school! Shucks! What's a licking! That's just like a girl -- they're so thin-skinned and chicken-hearted. […]"
   ≈clobber
4. verb

   To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.

   Example

   • My dad can lick your dad.
5. verb

   To overcome.

   Example

   • I think I can lick this.
6. verb

   To perform cunnilingus.

7. verb

   To do anything partially.

8. verb

   To lap.

   Example

   • Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
9. noun

   The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.

   Example

   • The cat gave its fur a lick.
10. noun

    The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.

    Example

    • Give me a lick of ice cream.