"lick up" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "licks up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "licking up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "licked up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "licked up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "lick up (third-person singular simple present licks up, present participle licking up, simple past and past participle licked up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1854, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Christmas Banquet",
          "text": "There was likewise a homeless dog, with his tail between his legs, licking up the crumbs and gnawing the fragments of the feast",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To consume something by first licking it from a surface."
      ],
      "id": "en-lick_up-en-verb-rRgU2ihd",
      "links": [
        [
          "consume",
          "consume"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To consume something by first licking it from a surface."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "lick clean"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "xcl",
          "lang": "Old Armenian",
          "roman": "lapʿem",
          "sense": "consume by licking",
          "word": "լափեմ"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "tiǎnguāng",
          "sense": "consume by licking",
          "word": "舔光"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "tiǎnwán",
          "sense": "consume by licking",
          "word": "添完"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "consume by licking",
          "word": "nuolla"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lick up"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "licks up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "licking up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "licked up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "licked up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "lick up (third-person singular simple present licks up, present participle licking up, simple past and past participle licked up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "lick clean"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1854, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Christmas Banquet",
          "text": "There was likewise a homeless dog, with his tail between his legs, licking up the crumbs and gnawing the fragments of the feast",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To consume something by first licking it from a surface."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "consume",
          "consume"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To consume something by first licking it from a surface."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "xcl",
      "lang": "Old Armenian",
      "roman": "lapʿem",
      "sense": "consume by licking",
      "word": "լափեմ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tiǎnguāng",
      "sense": "consume by licking",
      "word": "舔光"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tiǎnwán",
      "sense": "consume by licking",
      "word": "添完"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "consume by licking",
      "word": "nuolla"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lick up"
}