noun · verb · 27 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation:lĭp
General-American, Received-Pronunciation:/lɪp/
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rhymes with -ɪp
CMU ARPABET:L IH1 P
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: labium
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: labium
Antonyms: none provided
3
noun
Meaning 3
The projecting rim of an open container or a bell, etc.; a short open spout.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: edge, rim, spout
Antonyms: none provided
4
noun
Meaning 4
Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
13
noun
Meaning 13
Abbreviation of litigant in person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
14
verb
Meaning 14
To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
15
verb
Meaning 15
To touch lightly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
16
verb
Meaning 16
To wash against a surface, lap.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
17
verb
Meaning 17
To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
18
verb
Meaning 18
To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
1920, W. E. B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Howe, Chapter 9, p. 242, It was a tiny stone house whose front window lipped the passing sidewalk where ever tramped the feet of black soldiers marching home.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
19
verb
Meaning 19
To utter verbally.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
20
verb
Meaning 20
To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
21
verb
Meaning 21
To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
22
verb
Meaning 22
To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
23
noun
Meaning 23
either the outer margin or the inner margin of the aperture of a gastropod's shell
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: margin, border, perimeter
24
noun
Meaning 24
the top edge of a vessel or other container
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: brim, rim
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: edge
Narrower terms: collar, shoe collar
25
noun
Meaning 25
either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: external body part, articulator
Narrower terms: overlip, underlip
26
noun
Meaning 26
an impudent or insolent rejoinder
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
don't give me any of your sass
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sass, sassing, backtalk, back talk, mouth
(botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: plant part, plant structure
History
Etymology
From Middle English lippe, from Old English lippa, lippe (“lip”), from Proto-West Germanic *lippjō (“lip”), from Proto-Germanic *lepô, from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely, droop, sag”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Lippe (“lip”), West Frisian lippe (“lip”), Dutch lip (“lip”), German Lippe and Lefze (“lip”), Low German Lippe (“lip”), Luxembourgish Lëps (“lip”), Vilamovian łyp (“lip”), Yiddish ליפּ (lip, “lip”), Danish læbe (“lip”), Norwegian Bokmål leppe (“lip”), Norwegian Nynorsk leppa, leppe, lippa, lippe (“lip”), Swedish läpp (“lip”), Latin labium (“lip”).
Across languages
Translations
342 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Abkhaz:
ақьыша
(akjəŝa)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Afrikaans:
lip
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Aghul:
кӏентӏв
(kʼentʼv)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Ainu:
papus
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Ainu:
capus
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Ainu:
patoy
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Ainu:
patcake
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Aklanon:
bibig
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Albanian:
buzë
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Southern Altai:
эрин
(erin)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Alviri-Vidari:
لو
(lev)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Amharic:
ከንፈር
(känfär)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Arabic:
شَفَة
(šafa)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Arabic:
شفة
(šiffa)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Arabic:
شِفَّة
(šiffa)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Arabic:
شَفَايِف
(šafāyif)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Aramaic:
ספתא
(septhā, septho)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Aramaic:
ܣܦܬܐ
(septhā, septho)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Archi:
кӏветӏ
(kwʼetʼ)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Argobba:
ከንፈር
(känfär)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Armenian:
շրթունք
(šrtʻunkʻ)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Armenian:
շուրթ
(šurtʻ)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Old Armenian:
շուրթն
(šurtʻn)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Assamese:
ওঁঠ
(ü̃th)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Asturian:
llabiu
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Avar:
кӏветӏ
(kʼwetʼ)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Azerbaijani:
dodaq
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
West Coast Bajau:
sedi boa'
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Balochi:
لنٹ
(lunṭ)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Bangi:
lobebu
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Bashkir:
ирен
(iren)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Basque:
ezpain
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Belarusian:
губа́
(hubá)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Bengali:
ঠোঁট
(ṭhō̃ṭ)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Bhojpuri:
होंठ
(hōṇṭh)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Bau Bidayuh:
bibin
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Buginese:
wiwe
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Bulgarian:
у́стна
(ústna)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Burmese:
နှုတ်ခမ်း
(hnuthkam:)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Catalan:
llavi
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Cebuano:
ngabil
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Cebuano:
wait
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Chamicuro:
c̈hiila
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Chepang:
नर्पुन्
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Chinese Cantonese:
嘴脣 /嘴唇
(zeoi2 seon4)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Chinese Cantonese:
口脣 /口唇
(hau2 seon4)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Chinese:
зуйчунзы
(zuyčunzɨ)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Chinese:
зуйчур
(zuyčur)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth
Eastern Min Chinese:
喙皮
(hé̤ṳ-puòi / chói-puòi)
— fleshy protrusion framing the mouth