lippy
Americanadjective
noun
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“I get too lippy with him, he brings me over to his car, and just I didn’t help my situation at all,” he said in the video, calling his behavior “ridiculous,” “immature” and “disrespectful.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
He asks if she would like some "lippy" on for a photograph.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2022
The only valuable performances are by the aforementioned Hunnam, and Colin Farrell, who delights in playing the cunning and lippy Coach.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2020
A Spokesman Finds Fame Interviewing Tiny Experts How ubiquitous are those AT&T commercials with the inquisitive guy talking earnestly with the cute, lippy children?
From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2013
We’d already seen how she could make short work of peddlers even when they weren’t lippy.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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