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▸ noun: (countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
▸ noun: (by extension, countable) The projecting rim of an open container or a bell, etc.; a short open spout.
▸ noun: (slang, uncountable) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
▸ noun: The edge of a high spot of land.
▸ noun: The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
▸ noun: (botany) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
▸ noun: (botany) A distinctive lower-appearing of the three true petals of an orchid.
▸ noun: (zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
▸ noun: (music, colloquial) Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
▸ verb: (transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
▸ verb: (transitive, figurative) (of something inanimate) To touch lightly.
▸ verb: (intransitive, transitive) To wash against a surface, lap.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
▸ verb: (transitive) To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
▸ verb: (transitive) To utter verbally.
▸ verb: (transitive) To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
▸ verb: (sports) To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
▸ verb: (transitive, music) To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.
▸ noun: (colloquial) Short for lipstick. [(uncountable) Makeup for the lips.]
▸ noun: (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.]
▸ noun: Abbreviation of litigant in person. [(law) A litigant without an attorney.]
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