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Meaning lip meaning

What does lip mean?
Definitions in simple English

lip

The edge of an opening, especially, the human mouth (often plural). She climbed over the lip of the hole. John licked his lips. The window had a wide lip below it that collected dust. A disrespectful response. Don't give me any lip.

lip

either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking either the outer margin or the inner margin of the aperture of a gastropod's shell (botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx (= brim) the top edge of a vessel or other container (= sass, sassing) an impudent or insolent rejoinder don't give me any of your sass

Synonyms lip synonyms

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Topics lip topics

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Conjugation lip conjugation

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lip · verb

Examples lip examples

How do I use lip in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I bit my lip.
Is management really going to consider our bonus, or was that just lip service?
The businessman is trying to keep his people on the go by keeping a stiff upper lip, but they are just acting like a dying duck in a thunderstorm.
I bit the inside of my lip and got a canker sore.
Stiff upper lip!
Tom has a cleft lip.
Tom bit his lip.
She bit her lip.
Mary bit her bottom lip.
She has a cleft lip.
He has a cleft lip.
Mary bit her lower lip.
Mary bit her lip.
There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.
A mustache grows on the upper lip.
I have a cold sore on my lip.
I had to bite my lip to prevent myself from laughing.
He curled his lip in a sneer.
Shut up or I'll give you a fat lip!
He bit his lip.
Do you have some lip balm? My lips are dry.

Movie subtitles

Saltine crackers, fruity lip balm.
Who are you calling a fruity lip balm?
Take off the scarf. We want to see your cleft lip.
I didn't ask you for any lip.
We don't need anymore of his lip.
You reveal when you lie. - The right side of your lip goes up.
None of your lip.
Keep a stiff upper lip, Father.
But she may lip-read.
He's got his lip buttoned up for good as far as I can figure out.
Keep a stiff upper lip, old boy.
His upper lip is very nearly severed.
Mama, I think it's her lip.
Tootie, how did you get that lip?
I don't want any of your lip now.
Lip rouge.
When I left him he had a split lip and couple of dents in him. but he was just as much alive as you are.
No lip or I'll throw you all out.
Don't look now, Toppy, but there's some lip rouge on your cheek. Huh? Oh, yes.
Well, I might split his lip or cut his eye a little.
But she may lip read.
Well, button my lip and send me quick.
None of your lip, rookie.
We must keep a stiff upper lip.
The kid's keeping a stiff upper lip, but, Vi, really he's all broken up about it.
Keep a stiff upper lip, kid.
Have you ever tried holding your finger to your upper lip, hard?
Won't give me any more of his lip.
Yes, sir. - Say, that's a pretty ugly cut on your lip.
You may as well say, that's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
I have something to tell you. Keep a stiff upper lip.
Your lip's bleeding, George.
Your lip stopped bleeding, too, George.
This is a new case of lip cancer.
My lip is bleeding.

News and current affairs

If this is more than lip service, and if she really carries out a serious reform of the German welfare state's incentive structure, the result could be higher employment and structural economic growth.
Lip service was paid at Labour Party conferences to the old symbols of socialism.
The DR-CAFTA pays lip service to international labor standards as enshrined in the International Labor Organization's core labor rights, but promptly throws them overboard.
If this is to be more than lip service, the consequences will be radical.
Some countries, like the United States and Australia, chose to opt out of its stringent demands; others, like Canada, Japan, and a raft of European states, pay lip service to its requirements but will essentially miss its targets.
So far, the right-wing Sharon government, which seems to give only lip service to peace, is more than happy to engage in military actions that it knows will lead to Palestinian retaliations.
The newly established Israeli government refuses even to pay lip service to the internationally accepted requirements for peace.
The five nuclear powers continue to hang on to their weapons, giving mere lip service to their elimination.
But there is many a slip between Washington's mouth and Moscow's lip.
The World Bank's alternative treatments and Japan's Asian IMF are, despite lip service, not drawing too many clients.
The United States pays only lip service to free market principles, favoring Washington lobbyists and campaign contributors who demand just the opposite.
Now and again, both organizations pay lip service to the issue.
Each day, hundreds of interpreters literally pay lip service to this lofty precept, and millions of pages are translated annually so that citizens may consult EU law in their own language.
While the European Roma Platform launched in 2009 paid lip service to Roma issues, it did not go far enough.
If Merkel's government believes that paying lip service to growth is enough, it is playing with fire: a euro collapse in which not only Germans would be badly burned.
But, despite paying lip service to the market, the European left remains torn by an inner contradiction between its anti-capitalist origins and its recent conversion to free-market economics.
Few Party officials really wanted to be troubled by the complexities of such calculations anyway, but either abided by them or paid them lip service, for the sake of maintaining patronage and seeking promotion.
The truth is that none of the nuclear-armed states, inside or outside the NPT, pays anything more than lip service to the ultimate elimination of nuclear weapons.
Although they pay lip service to a continued shedding of extraneous businesses, the chaebol still resist complete rationalization, claiming that they cannot rid themselves of excess capacity so long as they maintain excess employment.
Congo's government has undertaken no significant effort to bring those responsible for these gender atrocities to justice; new laws have paid lip service to sexual violence, but no one has been prosecuted.