Usually means: Repeatedly touches with the tongue.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word licks:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. licks: Merriam-Webster
  2. licks: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. licks: Collins English Dictionary
  4. licks: Vocabulary.com
  5. Licks, licks: Wordnik
  6. licks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Licks, licks: Wiktionary
  8. licks: Dictionary.com
  9. licks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Lick's, Licks: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. licks: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Jazz Humor (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. licks: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. licks: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. licks: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. licks: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. licks: The Folk File

(Note: See lick as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Lick)

verb:  (transitive) To stroke with the tongue.
verb:  (transitive) To lap; to take in with the tongue.
verb:  (colloquial) To beat with repeated blows.
verb:  (colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
verb:  (colloquial) To overcome.
verb:  (vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.
verb:  (colloquial) To do anything partially.
verb:  (of flame, waves etc.) To lap.
noun:  The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
noun:  The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
noun:  A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue.
noun:  A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
noun:  A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
noun:  (colloquial) A stroke or blow.
noun:  (colloquial, chiefly in the negative) A small amount; a whit.
noun:  (informal) An attempt at something.
noun:  (music) A short motif.
noun:  (informal) A rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.)
noun:  (slang) An act of cunnilingus.
noun:  An instance or opportunity to earn money fast, usually by illegal means, thus a heist, drug deal etc. or its victim; mostly used in phrasal verbs: hit a lick, hit licks
noun:  A surname.
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