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English
Pronunciation
Noun
lips
- plural of lip
Derived terms
Verb
lips
- third-person singular simple present indicative of lip
Verb
lips (third-person singular simple present lipses, present participle lipsing, simple past and past participle lipsed)
- (MLE) To kiss (passionately), to smooch.
2014, Skepta, Jme (lyrics and music), “That's Not Me” (track 10), in Konnichiwa, performed by Skepta featuring Jme:Nah, that's not me / Act like a wasteman? That's not me / Sex any girl? Nah, that's not me / Lips any girl? Nah, that's not me
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Anagrams
Estonian
Etymology
From German Schlips.
Pronunciation
Noun
lips (genitive lipsu, partitive lipsu)
- tie, necktie
- (colloquial) bow (a (wide) ribbon, belt, etc. tied or attached as decoration)
Declension
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Further reading
- “lips”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “lips”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
- lips in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)