article on: <span class="searchmatch">stiff</span> <span class="searchmatch">upper</span> <span class="searchmatch">lip</span> Wikipedia Of American origin; the earliest known use is in 1811.[1] <span class="searchmatch">stiff</span> <span class="searchmatch">upper</span> <span class="searchmatch">lip</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">stiff</span> <span class="searchmatch">upper</span> <span class="searchmatch">lips</span>) (idiomatic)...
<span class="searchmatch">stiff</span> <span class="searchmatch">upper</span> <span class="searchmatch">lips</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">stiff</span> <span class="searchmatch">upper</span> <span class="searchmatch">lip</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">stiff</span> <span class="searchmatch">upper</span> <span class="searchmatch">lip</span> + -ery <span class="searchmatch">stiff</span>-<span class="searchmatch">upper</span>-lippery (uncountable) (informal) The quality of possessing a <span class="searchmatch">stiff</span> <span class="searchmatch">upper</span> <span class="searchmatch">lip</span>; stoicism....
<span class="searchmatch">stiff</span>-<span class="searchmatch">upper</span>-<span class="searchmatch">lipped</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">stiff</span>-<span class="searchmatch">upper</span>-<span class="searchmatch">lipped</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">stiff</span>-<span class="searchmatch">upper</span>-<span class="searchmatch">lipped</span>) Possessing a <span class="searchmatch">stiff</span> <span class="searchmatch">upper</span> <span class="searchmatch">lip</span>; stoic 1981 December 12, Andrea...
(humorous, sarcastic, vulgar) Sarcastic or jocular response to a person who has performed oral sex on someone. <span class="searchmatch">stiff</span> <span class="searchmatch">upper</span> <span class="searchmatch">lip</span> Translations lower <span class="searchmatch">lip</span>...
mustn't grumble (UK, humorous) Not bad; implying that life is not bad and one should not complain about it. <span class="searchmatch">stiff</span> <span class="searchmatch">upper</span> <span class="searchmatch">lip</span>...
stiff-lipped (comparative more stiff-lipped, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">stiff</span>-<span class="searchmatch">lipped</span>) Maintaining a <span class="searchmatch">stiff</span> <span class="searchmatch">upper</span> <span class="searchmatch">lip</span>. 1879 July, John Augustus O’Shea, “Accidents of War”...
stiff-as-a-board tranditionally [sic] masculine good looks and constrained, <span class="searchmatch">stiff</span>-<span class="searchmatch">upper</span> <span class="searchmatch">lipped</span> portrayal of Ed was a wonderful contrast to Fierstein's androgonous...
telecops plural of telecop 2009 September 27, Mike Hale, “Smarts and <span class="searchmatch">Stiff</span> <span class="searchmatch">Upper</span> <span class="searchmatch">Lip</span> in Times of War and Murder”, in New York Times[1]: As portrayed by...
(plural Alpine hats) Synonym of Tyrolean hat. 1963, P. G. Wodehouse, <span class="searchmatch">Stiff</span> <span class="searchmatch">Upper</span> <span class="searchmatch">Lip</span>, Jeeves: “Name it, Jeeves. Ask of me what you will, even unto half...