Usually means: Prepare lips for a kiss.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. pucker up: Merriam-Webster
  2. pucker up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pucker up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. pucker up: Wiktionary
  5. Pucker Up (disambiguation), Pucker Up, Pucker up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. pucker up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pucker up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pucker up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pucker up)

▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles; used especially of the lips when whistling or kissing.

Similar:
pout, make a lip, grin, mimp, squinch, smack, pouch, purr, plapper, foof, more...

Opposite:
flatten, smooth, relax, unclench

Phrases:
a evil woman all ready to pucker up, a woman all ready to pucker up, more...

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Similar:
pout, make a lip, grin, mimp, squinch, smack, pouch, purr, plapper, foof, more...

Opposite:
flatten, smooth, relax, unclench

Phrases:
a evil woman all ready to pucker up, a woman all ready to pucker up, more...



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