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
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
