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as in blow
a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument
gave the ball a solid lick with the bat
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2
as in shred
a very small amount
the soup needs just a lick more of salt
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as in damn
the smallest amount or part imaginable
you haven't done a lick of work all day
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as in to hide
to strike repeatedly
your father will lick you good if he hears you using swear words
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as in to master
to achieve a victory over
he's determined to do everything he can to lick the cancer
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Recent Examples of lick
Brenton Blanchet,
PEOPLE,
8 June 2026
Coals crackle, flames lick meat, and at the center of the pit stands Tootsie Tomanetz, 91 years old with tree-trunk arms and the nimble grace of a woman half her age.
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Arati Menon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 June 2026
Mateo Rosiles,
USA Today,
15 June 2026
Chalk it up to a bad match, and lick your wounds.
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Harriette Cole,
Mercury News,
11 June 2026
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Noun
The footage, shared to social media, features Hagen's Shaggy picking up Scooby and getting a few licks on his face.
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Brenton Blanchet,
PEOPLE,
8 June 2026
Coals crackle, flames lick meat, and at the center of the pit stands Tootsie Tomanetz, 91 years old with tree-trunk arms and the nimble grace of a woman half her age.
—
Arati Menon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 June 2026
Verb
Monitor pets for behavioral changes, as pets may experience pain, licking or chewing at a wound, loss of appetite and lethargy.
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Mateo Rosiles,
USA Today,
15 June 2026
Chalk it up to a bad match, and lick your wounds.
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Harriette Cole,
Mercury News,
11 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lick
Noun
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Emotionally, militarily, even symbolically, this is a devastating blow to the Black Queen and her cause.
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When Lucerys refuses, Aemond chases Lucerys on his dragon, seemingly meaning to injure him rather than kill him, but his dragon, Vhagar, delivers a fatal blow to Rhaenyra’s son.
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The rest of the band followed his lead, particularly Green, a relentless head-banger, dropping to her knees to become one with the feedback and leaning back into beatific shred-faces.
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There's one day left of food in the fridge, a flood in the basement, a hole in the ceiling and a group of people who are clinging to the last shreds of hope for the future.
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And if that is to be the case, most Chicagoans do not give a damn whether the team goes to Arlington Heights or Hammond.
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In a world of drivers mostly ruled by their corporate sponsors, Busch was an otherworldly talent who simply did not give a damn.
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Turns out, a kid brought in with gunshot wounds died in that room the same night, and a final look at the security footage shows a mysterious third man — clearly hiding his face from all cameras under a label-less baseball cap — entering the same room around the same time as Ji.
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Stealth jurors — those who hide their true biases to influence a verdict — could pose a serious problem for prosecutors in either of Mangione's cases, Rahmani said.
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For resistance training, that may mean starting with lighter weights and mastering technique before increasing load.
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Costco has mastered this equation for years.
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Deidre Hall delivered her most shocking slap yet on live TV on June 19.
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Only a few minutes earlier, Abulaila endured an inadvertent slap to his throat by Arnautovic on a pass into the box.
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Young guests can make a splash at the 16,000-square-foot waterpark or one of the seven freshwater pools.
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The excitement of that first game behind them, Advocaat and his players are looking to make more than just a splash in the remainder of their first tournament.
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His adoration, here as in all things natural, is infectious, although the birds themselves care not a whit for him, and isn’t that part of the wonder, the fun?
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An unconventional structure or new approach bothers them not a whit.
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“Lick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lick. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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