lipstick
Americannoun
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lipsticks
plural
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of lipstick
Explanation
Lipstick is makeup that makes your lips look darker, redder, or shinier. Your French teacher might be famous in your school for her heart-shaped glasses and bright pink lipstick. Some people like to wear lipstick every day, while others save it for fancy occasions. Most lipstick is a waxy, slightly creamy substance in a stick that's tinted with red pigment that colors your lips. It's a cosmetic that dates back at least to medieval times, and probably even farther back than that. In the 1600s, a fashionable look for upper class European women was a pale white face and bright red lipstick.
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Tucker calls from her home, a blurred background behind her, wearing a white blouse and lipstick.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Its factories can supply everything from frozen meat and candy to lipstick, medicine capsules and sports hijabs.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
In footage posted mid-June, state media showed a Revolutionary Guard member teaching women wearing heavy lipstick how to handle AK-47 assault rifles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Either way, the onetime roommates and bandmates pioneered a discomfiting broken-doll aesthetic of smudged eyeliner, smeared lipstick and plastic barrettes clipped to hanks of bleached-out hair.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
Now Olka was never without a tube of red lipstick.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
It launched a range of $160 Louis Vuitton lipsticks in August and will keep a tight leash on manufacturing and distribution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
Over martinis at Figaro, my friends pull out their lipsticks and glosses one by one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024
In July, cookie cutters shaped like lipsticks and convertible cars picked up steam, thanks to Barbie mania.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
He earned the moniker Lipstick King by once selling 150,000 lipsticks within five minutes.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2023
We checked the eye shadows and lipsticks, swiping the back of our hands with samples of apricot ice and pink blush.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
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