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lip
lip is a 3-letter English word with 14 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 14 senses
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- 1noun
One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself.
- 2noun
An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel.
- 3noun
The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
- 4noun
One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
- 5noun
The odd and peculiar petal in the Orchis family. See Orchidaceous.
- 6noun
One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
- 7transitive verb
To touch with the lips; to put the lips to; hence, to kiss.
- 8transitive verb
To utter; to speak.
- 9transitive verb
To clip; to trim.
- 10noun
either the outer margin or the inner margin of the aperture of a gastropod's shell
- 11noun
the top edge of a vessel or other container
- 12noun
either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking
- 13noun
an impudent or insolent rejoinder
"don't give me any of your sass"
- 14noun
(botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx
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