Example Sentences

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Q. Lens licker: My co-worker, while at a communal work table with me, mid-conversation, making eye contact, will routinely remove his eyeglasses, lick the lenses, and wipe them with his shirt.

From Slate • Jan. 7, 2019

Or the bathtub licker, a monster that thrives on soap scum?

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2014

Crazy Charlie, who is unsurprisingly overly protective of Quinn, is onto the fact that there is something between his lady and her tooth puller/face licker.

From Time • Apr. 11, 2014

Question 12 "Taco licker to get the axe," read a USA Today headline this week about whom?

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2013

After licker is brought Enright sends Jack Moore for the postmaster, who comes in lookin' plenty white.

From Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories by Dunton, W. Herbert