lick

lick is a 4-letter English word with 14 senses as transitive verb, verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master's hand. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master's hand.
2. transitive verb. To lap; to take in with the tongue; as, a dog or cat licks milk.
3. verb. A stroke of the tongue in licking.
4. verb. A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue; as, to put on colors with a lick of the brush. Also, a small quantity of any substance so applied.
5. verb. A place where salt is found on the surface of the earth, to which wild animals resort to lick it up; -- often, but not always, near salt springs.
6. transitive verb. To strike with repeated blows for punishment; to flog; to whip or conquer, as in a pugilistic encounter.
7. noun. A slap; a quick stroke.
8. noun. (boxing) a blow with the fist

   "I gave him a clout on his nose"

   Synonyms: biff, clout, poke, punch, slug

9. noun. touching with the tongue

   "the dog's laps were warm and wet"

   Synonyms: lap

10. noun. a salt deposit that animals regularly lick
11. verb. find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of

    "did you solve the problem?"

    "Work out your problems with the boss"

    Synonyms: solve, work

12. verb. take up with the tongue

    "The cat lapped up the milk"

    "the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast"

    Synonyms: lap

13. verb. beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight

    "We licked the other team on Sunday!"

    Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, drub, thrash

14. verb. pass the tongue over

    "the dog licked her hand"

    Synonyms: lap

Synonyms

biff, clout, poke, punch, slug, lap, solve, work, bat, clobber, cream, drub, thrash

Common word forms

licks, licked, licker, licking

Words from these letters

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