Usually means: Pass tongue over surface briefly.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. lick: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lick, lick: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lick: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lick: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lick: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lick, lick: Wordnik
  7. lick: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Lick, lick: Wiktionary
  9. lick: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lick: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lick: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Lick, lick: Dictionary.com
  13. lick (n.), lick (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. lick: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Lick (album), Lick (band), Lick (disambiguation), Lick (music), Lick (song), Lick (stream), Lick (surname), Lick, The Lick: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lick: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lick: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lick: Rhymezone
  19. lick: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lick: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. LICK: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. lick: Free Dictionary
  23. lick: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. lick: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. lick: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lick (disambiguation), lick: Encyclopedia

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  1. Lick (disambiguation), lick: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. lick: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. lick, lick, lick, lick, lick: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. lick (out): English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Lick: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. the lick: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See licked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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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