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      lip
      noun
      (countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
      (countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
      (by extension, countable) The projecting rim of an open container or a bell, etc.; a short open spout.
      (slang, uncountable) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
      The edge of a high spot of land.
      The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
      (botany) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
      (botany) A distinctive lower-appearing of the three true petals of an orchid.
      (zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
      (music, colloquial) Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
      (colloquial) Clipping of lipstick. [(uncountable) Makeup for the lips.]
      Abbreviation of litigant in person. [(law) A litigant without an attorney.]
      (geology) Abbreviation of large igneous province. [(geology) An area with a very large accumulation of igneous rocks formed by extreme volcanism (commonly attributed to the eruption of a mantle plume) during a short geological timeframe.]
      verb
      (transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
      (transitive, figuratively, of an object) To touch lightly.
      (intransitive, transitive) To wash against a surface, lap.
      (intransitive) To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
      (transitive) To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
      (transitive) To utter verbally.
      (transitive) To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
      (sports) To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
      (transitive, music) To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.
      Synonyms for lip
      mouthnlabiumnbrowntonguenrimnlabellumembouchurenjawn
      Words related to lip
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