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lick
noun as in light touch; little amount
verb as in touch with tongue
verb as in play over with fire
Example Sentences
Researchers studying the endangered animals had reported occasionally seeing this nectar licking but had never captured it on video.
You could spend days under your headphones unraveling the dense weave of riffs, licks, rhythms and languages in this song.
A disproportionate number not only did not even passively resist but showed themselves eager to lick the polish off Hitler’s jackboots, if necessary.
“So it kind of collapsed at the end, which I think actually gives it a little bit more of a cult quality,” he says, still licking his wounds but looking for the silver lining.
“But,” as Chase quipped in “Weekend Update,” “If you want to lick it, it’s a quarter.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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