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on everyone's/everybody's lips

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Definition of on everyone's/everybody's lips

informal
: being said or discussed by many people
  • The celebrity murder trial was on everyone's lips.

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everyone play

  1. : every person : everybody

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everybody play

  1. : everyone

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lip play lips

  1. : either of two fleshy folds that surround the mouth in humans and many other vertebrates and are organs of human speech essential to certain articulations

  2. : back talk

  3. : a fleshy edge or margin (as of a wound)

  1. : insincere

  2. : produced with the participation of the lips : labial

  1. : to touch with the lips

  2. : utter

  3. : to lap against : lick

  1. : fat : fatty tissue : fatty

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