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

Huggins, who manages the Bird Cage, an' who's the only hooman who ever consoomes licker, drink for drink, with Monte, an' lives to tell the tale, is in the middle.

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