lick
verb (used with object)
to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.).
licker
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a word derived from
lick.
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
Fed us out a big bowl of pot licker wid plenty corn bread en fried meat en dat bout all we ever eat.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration
