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lipstick

noun · verb · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈlɪpstɪk/
  • General-American: /ˈlɪpˌstɪk/
  • General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with (RP) -ɪpstɪk
  • CMU ARPABET: L IH1 P S T IH2 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Makeup for the lips.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

Examples

  • Are you wearing any lipstick today?

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A stick of this makeup.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, usually

Examples

  • I'd like three lipsticks in this shade.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A dog's penis.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, informal, usually

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Ellipsis of lipstick lesbian.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, slang, usually

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

verb

Meaning 5

To apply lipstick to; to paint with lipstick.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

makeup that is used to color the lips

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: lip rouge

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: makeup, make-up, war paint

7

verb

Meaning 7

apply lipstick to

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • She lipsticked her mouth

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: make up

8

verb

Meaning 8

form by tracing with lipstick

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • The clown had lipsticked circles on his cheeks

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: delineate, limn, outline

History

Etymology

From lip + stick.

Across languages

Translations

182 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: lipstiffie — make-up for the lips
  • Arabic: أَحْمَر شِفَاه (ʔaḥmar šifāh) — make-up for the lips
  • Arabic: روچ (rūž) — make-up for the lips
  • Arabic: حمرة (ḥumra) — make-up for the lips
  • Arabic: روج (rōj) — make-up for the lips
  • Tunisian Arabic: حُمِّير (ḥummīr) — make-up for the lips
  • Armenian: շրթներկ (šrtʻnerk) — make-up for the lips
  • Assamese: লিপিষ্টিক (lipistik) — make-up for the lips
  • Asturian: barra de llabios — make-up for the lips
  • Azerbaijani: dodaq boyası — make-up for the lips
  • Basque: ezpainetako — make-up for the lips
  • Belarusian: губна́я пама́да (hubnája pamáda) — make-up for the lips
  • Bengali: লিপস্টিক (liposṭik) — make-up for the lips
  • Breton: ruz-muzelloù — make-up for the lips
  • Bulgarian: черви́ло (červílo) — make-up for the lips
  • Catalan: pintallavis — make-up for the lips
  • Chechen: балдех хьокху хьакхар (baldex ḥroqu ḥraqar) — make-up for the lips
  • Chinese Cantonese: 唇膏 (seon4 gou1) — make-up for the lips
  • Chinese Cantonese: 口紅 /口红 — make-up for the lips
  • Chinese Mandarin: 唇膏 (chúngāo) — make-up for the lips
  • Chinese Mandarin: 口紅 /口红 (kǒuhóng) — make-up for the lips
  • Ngazidja Comorian: mlala — make-up for the lips
  • Cornish: minliw — make-up for the lips
  • Czech: rtěnka — make-up for the lips
  • Danish: læbestift — make-up for the lips
  • Dutch: lippenrood — make-up for the lips
  • Dutch: lippenstift — make-up for the lips
  • Dutch: lipstick — make-up for the lips
  • Esperanto: lipoŝminko — make-up for the lips
  • Esperanto: lipbastoneto — make-up for the lips
  • Esperanto: lipruĝo — make-up for the lips
  • Estonian: huulepulk — make-up for the lips
  • Finnish: huulipuna — make-up for the lips
  • French: rouge à lèvres — make-up for the lips
  • West-Frisian: lippestift — make-up for the lips
  • Friulian: sbelet — make-up for the lips
  • Gagauz: ruj — make-up for the lips
  • Georgian: პომადა (ṗomada) — make-up for the lips
  • Georgian: ტუჩის საცხი (ṭučis sacxi) — make-up for the lips
  • German: Lippenstift — make-up for the lips
  • Greek: κραγιόν (kragión) — make-up for the lips
  • Hawaiian: pena waha — make-up for the lips
  • Hebrew: אודם — make-up for the lips
  • Hebrew: אֹדֶם (ódem) — make-up for the lips
  • Hebrew: שְׂפָתוֹן (sfáton) — make-up for the lips
  • Hindi: लिपस्टिक (lipasṭik) — make-up for the lips
  • Hungarian: rúzs — make-up for the lips
  • Icelandic: varalitur — make-up for the lips
  • Indonesian: lipstik — make-up for the lips
  • Irish: béaldath — make-up for the lips
  • Italian: rossetto — make-up for the lips
  • Japanese: 口紅 (kuchibeni) — make-up for the lips
  • Japanese: リップスティック (rippusutikku) — make-up for the lips
  • Japanese: ルージュ (rūju) — make-up for the lips
  • Kazakh: ерін далабы (erın dalaby) — make-up for the lips
  • Kazakh: далап (dalap) — make-up for the lips
  • Khmer: ក្រែមលាបមាត់ (kraem liəp mŏət) — make-up for the lips
  • Khmer: ក្រមួនមាត់ (krɑɑmuən mŏət) — make-up for the lips
  • Khmer: ក្រេម (kreem) — make-up for the lips
  • Korean: 립스틱 (ripseutik) — make-up for the lips
  • Korean: 입술연지 (ipsullyeonji) — make-up for the lips
  • Korean: 루주 (ruju) — make-up for the lips
  • Central Kurdish: سوراو (suraw) — make-up for the lips
  • Northern Kurdish: sorav — make-up for the lips
  • Kyrgyz: эрин помадасы (erin pomadası) — make-up for the lips
  • Kyrgyz: ооз боёк (ooz boyok) — make-up for the lips
  • Ladino: ruj — make-up for the lips
  • Lao: ລິບສະຕິກ (lip sa tik) — make-up for the lips
  • Latin: baculum — make-up for the lips
  • Latin: labrum baculum — make-up for the lips
  • Macedonian: кармин (karmin) — make-up for the lips
  • Macedonian: црвило (crvilo) — make-up for the lips
  • Malay: gincu — make-up for the lips
  • Malay: lipstik — make-up for the lips
  • Manx: beeal-daah — make-up for the lips
  • Māori: pani ngutu — make-up for the lips
  • Māori: ripitiki — make-up for the lips
  • Mongolian: уруулын будаг (uruulyn budag) — make-up for the lips
  • Mongolian: уруулын энгэсэг (uruulyn engeseg) — make-up for the lips
  • Navajo: zábąąh bee yichxíhí — make-up for the lips
  • Norwegian Bokmål: leppestift — make-up for the lips
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: leppestift — make-up for the lips
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: lepestift — make-up for the lips
  • Occitan: pintrapòts — make-up for the lips
  • Pashto: لپسټیک (lipsṭik) — make-up for the lips
  • Dari: لَبسِرِین (lab-sirīn) — make-up for the lips
  • Iranian Persian: رُژِ لَب (rož-e lab) — make-up for the lips
  • Iranian Persian: ماتیک (mâtik) — make-up for the lips
  • Iranian Persian: رُژ (rož) — make-up for the lips
  • Piedmontese: russet — make-up for the lips
  • Polish: szminka — make-up for the lips
  • Polish: barwidło — make-up for the lips
  • Portuguese: batom — make-up for the lips
  • Punjabi: ਲਿਪਸਟਿਕ (lipsaṭik) — make-up for the lips
  • Punjabi: سُرْخی (surxī) — make-up for the lips
  • Romanian: ruj — make-up for the lips
  • Romanian: roșu de buze — make-up for the lips
  • Romansh: lefzagl — make-up for the lips
  • Romansh: bellet da lefs — make-up for the lips
  • Russian: губна́я пома́да (gubnája pomáda) — make-up for the lips
  • Russian: пома́да (pomáda) — make-up for the lips
  • Serbo-Croatian: ка̀рмӣн — make-up for the lips
  • Serbo-Croatian: ру̑ж — make-up for the lips
  • Serbo-Croatian: kàrmīn — make-up for the lips
  • Serbo-Croatian: rȗž — make-up for the lips
  • Sicilian: pittamussu — make-up for the lips
  • Sicilian: tincimussu — make-up for the lips
  • Slovak: rúž — make-up for the lips
  • Lower Sorbian: nagubny barwik — make-up for the lips
  • Upper Sorbian: barbjenčk — make-up for the lips
  • Spanish: lápiz labial — make-up for the lips
  • Spanish: pintalabios — make-up for the lips
  • Spanish: lápiz de labios — make-up for the lips
  • Spanish: labial — make-up for the lips
  • Spanish: carmín — make-up for the lips
  • Spanish: bilé — make-up for the lips
  • Spanish: rush — make-up for the lips
  • Spanish: rouge — make-up for the lips
  • Spanish: bilet — make-up for the lips
  • Spanish: colorete — make-up for the lips
  • Swahili: rangi ya mdomo — make-up for the lips
  • Swedish: läppstift — make-up for the lips
  • Tagalog: lipstik — make-up for the lips
  • Tajik: лабсурхкунак (labsurxkunak) — make-up for the lips
  • Tausug: atal — make-up for the lips
  • Thai: ลิปสติก (líp-sà-dtìk) — make-up for the lips
  • Tibetan: མཆུ་ཏོ་དམར་པོ་བཟོ་ཡག (mchu to dmar po bzo yag) — make-up for the lips
  • Turkish: ruj — make-up for the lips
  • Ukrainian: губна́ пома́да (hubná pomáda) — make-up for the lips
  • Ukrainian: пома́да (pomáda) — make-up for the lips
  • Urdu: سُرْخی (surxī) — make-up for the lips
  • Urdu: لِپ اَسْٹِک (lip asṭik) — make-up for the lips
  • Uzbek: labga suriladigan pomada — make-up for the lips
  • Uzbek: lab boʻyogʻi — make-up for the lips
  • Vietnamese: cây son — make-up for the lips
  • Vietnamese: son môi — make-up for the lips
  • Welsh: minlliw — make-up for the lips
  • Afrikaans: lipstiffie — stick of this make-up
  • Armenian: շրթներկ (šrtʻnerk) — stick of this make-up
  • Bulgarian: черви́ло (červílo) — stick of this make-up
  • Catalan: pintallavis — stick of this make-up
  • Chinese Mandarin: 唇膏 (chúngāo) — stick of this make-up
  • Chinese Mandarin: 口紅 /口红 (kǒuhóng) — stick of this make-up
  • Ngazidja Comorian: mlala — stick of this make-up
  • Czech: rtěnka — stick of this make-up
  • Danish: læbestift — stick of this make-up
  • Dutch: lippenstift — stick of this make-up
  • Dutch: lipstick — stick of this make-up
  • Esperanto: lipoŝminko — stick of this make-up
  • Estonian: huulepulk — stick of this make-up
  • Finnish: huulipuna — stick of this make-up
  • Finnish: huulipunapuikko — stick of this make-up
  • French: rouge à lèvres — stick of this make-up
  • Hungarian: ajakrúzs — stick of this make-up
  • Indonesian: lipstik — stick of this make-up
  • Italian: rossetto — stick of this make-up
  • Japanese: リップスティック (rippusutikku) — stick of this make-up
  • Korean: 립스틱 (ripseutik) — stick of this make-up
  • Macedonian: кармин (karmin) — stick of this make-up
  • Macedonian: црвило (crvilo) — stick of this make-up
  • Māori: pani ngutu — stick of this make-up
  • Mongolian: уруулын будаг (uruulyn budag) — stick of this make-up
  • Norwegian Bokmål: leppestift — stick of this make-up
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: leppestift — stick of this make-up
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: lepestift — stick of this make-up
  • Polish: szminka — stick of this make-up
  • Portuguese: batom — stick of this make-up
  • Romanian: ruj — stick of this make-up
  • Russian: губна́я пома́да (gubnája pomáda) — stick of this make-up
  • Serbo-Croatian: ка̀рмӣн — stick of this make-up
  • Serbo-Croatian: ру̑ж — stick of this make-up
  • Serbo-Croatian: kàrmīn — stick of this make-up
  • Serbo-Croatian: rȗž — stick of this make-up
  • Slovak: rúž — stick of this make-up
  • Spanish: lápiz labial — stick of this make-up
  • Spanish: pintalabios — stick of this make-up
  • Spanish: lápiz de labios — stick of this make-up
  • Spanish: barra labial — stick of this make-up
  • Spanish: lípstic — stick of this make-up
  • Swedish: läppstift — stick of this make-up
  • Tagalog: lipstik — stick of this make-up
  • Turkish: ruj — stick of this make-up
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