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Show affection, dog-style
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lick
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Word definitions for lick in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A lick is a small watercourse or an ephemeral stream. It ranks hydrologically between a rill , shown left, and a stream , shown right.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"an act of licking," c.1600, from lick (v.1). Meaning "small portion" is 1814, originally Scottish; hence U.S. colloquial sense. Sense of "place where an animal goes to lick salt" is from 1747. The jazz music sense of "short figure or solo" is by 1922.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a salt deposit that animals regularly lick [syn: salt lick ] touching with the tongue; "the dog's laps were warm and wet" [syn: lap ] (boxing) a blow with the fist; "I gave him a clout on his nose" [syn: punch , clout , poke , biff ] v. beat thoroughly ...
Usage examples of lick.
It would just be me and her on a high hill and me rolling the rocks down the hill faces and teeth and all by God until she was quiet and not that goddamn adze going One lick less.
Awm his mam,-- That aw am, But awm ommost worn aght, A gooid lick Wi a stick, He just cares nowt abaght.
In a flash, Maximilian, Clementine, Telzey, and Emma had surrounded Ake and were licking his face and putting their massive paws on his shoulders.
They heaved in a great, tangled mass, thrusting, licking, panting, writhing, biting, while a crowd gathered on the sidewalk beneath the building, gesturing upward toward the ludicrous alfresco scene.
She snorted, sounding remarkably like Arra, sat down, and licked her butt.
Then, to the amazement of the two on-lookers, he set the four axolotls on the plate, and they immediately began to dance about as if they were having a wonderful time of it They dashed this way and darted that way and made little axolotl footprints throughout, pausing now and again to lick their feet clean before prancing off again through the goop.
Pol moved through the market, chewing baklava, licking fingers coated with honey.
Hovering over the scene was a bunch of particularly ugly buzzards, looking down upon the good guys and licking their beaky chops.
Ollia Bekke poised tense and trembling, and with the first lick of blood-colored lightning from her Globe a slick of sweat shone on her brow.
Pewt he said that old Hobbs come down to his house today and told his father he rung his doorbell 2 times and Pewt said he dident and his father said he dident beleeve him and was going to lick time out of him if he had and he did it.
It did look as if the CSA would have to hit the USA another lick to make the bigger country fall over.
The two beasts sniffed each other warily, then Bozo, like an anxious parent, began licking his pup as if to make certain that he was unharmed.
When he brought his fingers to his lips and licked them, he tasted the brackishness of dissolved salts.
The woman licked her lips, her gaze moving over Brochan in a familiar fashion.
I taste the salt on my lips still from when I touch she bubbies and lick my fingers after.