lick

IPA(Pronunciation)

/lɪk/

Noun

colloquial informal slang

The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue. / The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick. / A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue.

Japanese Meaning

舐める行為、舌を使って舐める動作 / 一度の舐めによって得られる量 / 手短かに雑になめるように適用する行為

What is this buttons?

The puppy gave me a quick lick on the hand.

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子犬が私の手をさっと舐めた。

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Sense（1）

The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.

The cat gave its fur a lick.

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Sense（2）

The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.

Give me a lick of ice cream.

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Sense（3）

A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue.

a lick of paint

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Sense（4）

A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.

The birds gathered at the clay lick.

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Sense（5）

A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.

We used to play in the lick.

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Sense（6）

(colloquial) A stroke or blow.

Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer.

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Sense（7）

(colloquial) A small amount; a whit.

You don't have a lick of sense.

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Sense（8）

(informal) An attempt at something.

Well, my album did well, but "Ruby" was a timely song and that wasn't the time for it to step out. […] Then Waylon Jennings took a lick at it on an album, and my old buddy Roger Miller covered it, too, in his album. And although they're outstanding artists, nothing much happened with the song.

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