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underlip

American  
[uhn-der-lip] / ˈʌn dərˌlɪp /

noun

  • underlips
    plural
  1. the lower or bottom lip.


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A clean-cut little man with sleepy eyelids, confident, protruding underlip and well-defined paunch, he continued to be a familiar figure about training-camps, gymnasiums and other haunts of pugilists.

From Time Magazine Archive

She slouches around with her glowing hair gone dull, her glasses stuck on top of her head, her underlip sullen, resentment in the very sag of her shoulders and the dangle of her arms.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most tedious shot: Dietrich biting her underlip to express passion.

From Time Magazine Archive

He reads early and late with his underlip stuck far out.

From Time Magazine Archive

She mulled that over for a while, chewing at her underlip.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

All have sandy hair, white eyebrows, and thick underlips.

From Jerusalem by Velma Swanston Howard

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