"lick" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /lɪk/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-lick.ogg [General-American] Forms: licks [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪk Etymology: From Middle English likken, from Old English liccian, from Proto-West Germanic *likkōn, from Proto-Germanic *likkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ- (“to lick”). See also Saterland Frisian likje, Dutch likken, German lecken; also Old Irish ligid, Latin lingō (“lick”), ligguriō (“to lap, lick up”), Lithuanian laižyti, Old Church Slavonic лизати (lizati), Ancient Greek λείχω (leíkhō), Old Armenian լիզեմ (lizem), Persian لیسیدن (lisidan), Sanskrit लेढि (léḍhi), रेढि (réḍhi). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*leyǵʰ-}} [Template:root], {{inh|en|enm|likken}} Middle English likken, {{inh|en|ang|liccian}} Old English liccian, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*likkōn}} Proto-West Germanic *likkōn, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*likkōną}} Proto-Germanic *likkōną, {{der|en|ine-pro|*leyǵʰ-|t=to lick}} Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ- (“to lick”), {{cog|stq|likje}} Saterland Frisian likje, {{cog|nl|likken}} Dutch likken, {{cog|de|lecken}} German lecken, {{cog|sga|ligid}} Old Irish ligid, {{cog|la|lingō||lick}} Latin lingō (“lick”), {{m|la|ligguriō||to lap, lick up}} ligguriō (“to lap, lick up”), {{cog|lt|laižyti}} Lithuanian laižyti, {{cog|cu|лизати}} Old Church Slavonic лизати (lizati), {{cog|grc|λείχω}} Ancient Greek λείχω (leíkhō), {{cog|xcl|լիզեմ}} Old Armenian լիզեմ (lizem), {{cog|fa|لیسیدن|tr=lisidan}} Persian لیسیدن (lisidan), {{cog|sa|लेढि|tr=léḍhi}} Sanskrit लेढि (léḍhi), {{m|sa|रेढि|tr=réḍhi}} रेढि (réḍhi) Head templates: {{en-noun}} lick (plural licks)
  1. The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue. Translations (act of licking): চেলেকা (seleka) (Assamese), llambedura [feminine] (Asturian), চাটা (caṭa) (Bengali), dilot (Bikol Central), llepada [feminine] (Catalan), lízání [neuter] (Czech), lik [masculine] (Dutch), nuolaisu (Finnish), léchage [masculine] (French), lambedela [feminine] (Galician), ლოკვა (loḳva) (Georgian), Lecken [neuter] (German), nyalogatás (Hungarian), nyalintás (Hungarian), leccata (Italian), нюаллэ (njualle) (Kildin Sami), 핥음 (halteum) (Korean), лижење (liženje) [neuter] (Macedonian), alîstin (Northern Kurdish), njoallut (Northern Sami), slikk [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), slikk [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), لیس (lis) (Persian), لیسیدن (lisidan) (Persian), لشتن (leštan) (Persian), lizanie [neuter] (Polish), lambida [feminine] (Portuguese), лиза́ние (lizánije) [neuter] (Russian), обли́зывание (oblízyvanije) [neuter] (Russian), alliccata (Sicilian), liccata (Sicilian), njåalodh (Southern Sami), lamedura [masculine] (Spanish), slick [neuter] (Swedish), pagdila (Tagalog), yalamak (Turkish), лиза́ння (lyzánnja) [neuter] (Ukrainian), לעק (lek) [masculine] (Yiddish), lêsen (Zazaki)
    Sense id: en-lick-en-noun-JAW7WOGU Disambiguation of 'act of licking': 79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10
  2. The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick. Translations (amount obtainable with a single lick): liz [masculine] (Czech), лиз (liz) [masculine] (Macedonian), alliccata (Sicilian), liccata (Sicilian), lêsık (Zazaki)
    Sense id: en-lick-en-noun-SosmFBGv Disambiguation of 'amount obtainable with a single lick': 2 56 0 3 1 0 32 2 1 2 1
  3. A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue.
    Sense id: en-lick-en-noun-1TZQsbdb
  4. A place where animals lick minerals from the ground. Translations (place where animals lick minerals from the ground): солище (solište) [neuter] (Bulgarian), liz [masculine] (Czech), lêstık (Zazaki)
    Sense id: en-lick-en-noun-hIi2dReJ Disambiguation of 'place where animals lick minerals from the ground': 0 1 0 95 0 0 2 0 1 1 0
  5. A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream. Translations (small watercourse or ephemeral stream): lǣċ (Old English), lǣċe (Old English), roden (Zazaki)
    Sense id: en-lick-en-noun-uxFFu5eO Disambiguation of 'small watercourse or ephemeral stream': 0 1 2 0 82 0 6 0 5 3 0
  6. (colloquial) A stroke or blow. Tags: colloquial Translations (colloquial: a stroke or blow): силен удар (silen udar) [masculine] (Bulgarian), alliccata (Sicilian), liccata (Sicilian), sucata (Sicilian), bofetón (Spanish), golpazo [masculine] (Spanish), nequr (Zazaki)
    Sense id: en-lick-en-noun-jE1d9Wot Disambiguation of 'colloquial: a stroke or blow': 4 1 3 0 0 87 2 0 1 1 1
  7. (colloquial) A small amount; a whit. Tags: colloquial Synonyms: modicum Translations (colloquial: a bit): jako když plivne (Czech)
    Sense id: en-lick-en-noun-lRcNCWLe Disambiguation of 'colloquial: a bit': 1 4 1 13 1 8 43 1 3 22 3
  8. (informal) An attempt at something. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-lick-en-noun--HwRhlAq
  9. (music) A short motif. Categories (topical): Music Translations (music: a short motif): zıwan eştış (Zazaki)
    Sense id: en-lick-en-noun-KLLaZHQ2 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music Disambiguation of 'music: a short motif': 2 1 1 1 3 0 1 0 90 1 0
  10. (informal) A rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.) Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-lick-en-noun-UMKkvjCO
  11. (slang) An act of cunnilingus. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Sex
    Sense id: en-lick-en-noun-pN2wmbNL Disambiguation of Sex: 1 1 0 2 3 0 1 1 10 3 27 7 1 1 1 2 2 34 1 1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Noun

Forms: licks [plural]
Etymology: From hit a lick, which see. Ultimately from liquor. Etymology templates: {{m|en|hit a lick}} hit a lick, {{m|en|liquor}} liquor Head templates: {{en-noun}} lick (plural licks)
  1. An instance or opportunity of earning money fast, usually by illegal means, thus a heist, drug deal etc. or its victim; mostly used in phrasal verbs: hit a lick, hit licks
    Sense id: en-lick-en-noun-0hLXvA9K Categories (other): English back-formations, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 2 7 2 8 3 1 9 2 6 3 1 33 1 3 2 14 3 2 1 1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /lɪk/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-lick.ogg [General-American] Forms: licks [present, singular, third-person], licking [participle, present], licked [participle, past], licked [past]
Rhymes: -ɪk Etymology: From Middle English likken, from Old English liccian, from Proto-West Germanic *likkōn, from Proto-Germanic *likkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ- (“to lick”). See also Saterland Frisian likje, Dutch likken, German lecken; also Old Irish ligid, Latin lingō (“lick”), ligguriō (“to lap, lick up”), Lithuanian laižyti, Old Church Slavonic лизати (lizati), Ancient Greek λείχω (leíkhō), Old Armenian լիզեմ (lizem), Persian لیسیدن (lisidan), Sanskrit लेढि (léḍhi), रेढि (réḍhi). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*leyǵʰ-}} [Template:root], {{inh|en|enm|likken}} Middle English likken, {{inh|en|ang|liccian}} Old English liccian, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*likkōn}} Proto-West Germanic *likkōn, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*likkōną}} Proto-Germanic *likkōną, {{der|en|ine-pro|*leyǵʰ-|t=to lick}} Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ- (“to lick”), {{cog|stq|likje}} Saterland Frisian likje, {{cog|nl|likken}} Dutch likken, {{cog|de|lecken}} German lecken, {{cog|sga|ligid}} Old Irish ligid, {{cog|la|lingō||lick}} Latin lingō (“lick”), {{m|la|ligguriō||to lap, lick up}} ligguriō (“to lap, lick up”), {{cog|lt|laižyti}} Lithuanian laižyti, {{cog|cu|лизати}} Old Church Slavonic лизати (lizati), {{cog|grc|λείχω}} Ancient Greek λείχω (leíkhō), {{cog|xcl|լիզեմ}} Old Armenian լիզեմ (lizem), {{cog|fa|لیسیدن|tr=lisidan}} Persian لیسیدن (lisidan), {{cog|sa|लेढि|tr=léḍhi}} Sanskrit लेढि (léḍhi), {{m|sa|रेढि|tr=réḍhi}} रेढि (réḍhi) Head templates: {{en-verb}} lick (third-person singular simple present licks, present participle licking, simple past and past participle licked)
  1. (transitive) To stroke with the tongue. Tags: transitive Translations (to stroke with the tongue): ケㇺ (kem) (Ainu), lëpij (Albanian), λείχω (leíkhō) (Ancient Greek), لَحَسَ (laḥasa) (Arabic), لَعِقَ (laʕiqa) (Arabic), لحس (laḥas) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), لحس (láḥas) [South-Levantine-Arabic] (Arabic), լիզել (lizel) (Armenian), լպստել (lpstel) (Armenian), চেলেক (selek) (Assamese), llamber (Asturian), yalamaq (Azerbaijani), ялау (yalaw) (Bashkir), ліза́ць (lizácʹ) [imperfective] (Belarusian), চাটা (caṭa) (Bengali), dilot (Bikol Central), ли́жа (líža) [imperfective] (Bulgarian), လျက် (lyak) (Burmese), долёохо (doljooxo) (Buryat), llepar (Catalan), dila (Cebuano), tila (Cebuano), tilap (Cebuano), ᎠᎦᎾᏗᎠ (aganadia) (Cherokee), (tiǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), (shì) (Chinese Mandarin), лизати (lizati) [Cyrillic, imperfective] (Church Slavic), lízat [imperfective] (Czech), líznout [perfective] (Czech), slikke (Danish), likken (Dutch), нолсемс (nolśems) (Erzya), leki (Esperanto), lakkuma (Estonian), limpsima (Estonian), дал- (dal-) (Even), sleikja (Faroese), nuolla (Finnish), lécher (French), lecâ (Friulian), lenzi (Friulian), hnami (Fwâi), lamber (Galician), ლოკვა (loḳva) (Georgian), lecken (German), 𐌱𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌲𐍉𐌽 (bilaigōn) (Gothic), γλείφω (gleífo) (Greek), palu (Hawaiian), לִקֵּק (likek) (Hebrew), चाटना (cāṭnā) (Hindi), nyal (Hungarian), lecke (Hunsrik), sleikja (Icelandic), jilat (Indonesian), noolla (Ingrian), kaalia (Ingrian), ligh (Irish), leccare (Italian), 舐める (nameru) (alt: なめる) (Japanese), 舐ぶる (neburu) (alt: ねぶる) (Japanese), hnami (Jawe), долах (dolax) (Kalmyk), жалау (jalau) (Kazakh), លិឍ (lɨt) (Khmer), លិទ្ធ (lɨt) (Khmer), 핥다 (halda) (Korean), жалоо (jaloo) (Kyrgyz), ເລຍ (līa) (Lao), lyzguot (Latgalian), lambō (Latin), lingō (Latin), laizīt (Latvian), laižyti (Lithuanian), leccà (Lombard), lizaś [imperfective] (Lower Sorbian), лиже (liže) [imperfective] (Macedonian), jilat (Malay), ᡳᠯᡝᠮᠪᡳ (ilembi) (Manchu), चाटणे (ċāṭṇe) (Marathi), likken (Middle English), licken (Middle English), долоох (doloox) (Mongolian), илэ- (ile-) (Nanai), liccà (Neapolitan), hnami (Nemi), litchi [Jersey] (Norman), slikke (Norwegian Bokmål), sleike (Norwegian Bokmål), slikke (Norwegian Nynorsk), sleike (Norwegian Nynorsk), sleikje (Norwegian Nynorsk), lecar (Occitan), лизати (lizati) [imperfective] (Old East Slavic), liccian (Old English), ligid (Old Irish), څټل (caṭᶕl) (Pashto), jaʔ³¹ (Pela), لیسیدن (lisidan) (Persian), hnami (Pije), lizać [imperfective] (Polish), lamber (Portuguese), llaqway (Quechua), lampiy (Quechua), llagwai (Quechua), llunk'uy (Quechua), linge (Romanian), лиза́ть (lizátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), обли́зывать (oblízyvatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), лизну́ть (liznútʹ) [perfective] (Russian), полиза́ть (polizátʹ) [perfective] (Russian), लिहति (lihati) (Sanskrit), imlich (Scottish Gaelic), лизати [Cyrillic, imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), лизнути [Cyrillic, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), lizati [Roman, imperfective] (Serbo-Croatian), liznuti [Roman, perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), alliccari (Sicilian), liccari (Sicilian), lìnciri (Sicilian), lízať [imperfective] (Slovak), lizati [imperfective] (Slovene), polizati [perfective] (Slovene), lamer (Spanish), lamber (Spanish), slicka (Swedish), ꠟꠤꠀꠘꠤ (liani) (Sylheti), лесидан (lesidan) (Tajik), நக்கு (nakku) (Tamil), నాకు (nāku) (Telugu), เลีย (liia) (Thai), ལྡག་པ (ldag pa) (Tibetan), ལྕེ་ལྡག་རྒྱག (lce ldag rgyag) (Tibetan), ལྕེ་ལྡག་བརྒྱབ (lce ldag brgyab) (Tibetan), yalamak (Turkish), ýalamak (Turkmen), лиза́ти (lyzáty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), lizać [imperfective] (Upper Sorbian), چاٹنا (cāṭnā) (Urdu), يالىماق (yalimaq) (Uyghur), yalamoq (Uzbek), liếm (Vietnamese), łakia (Vilamovian), llyfu (Welsh), салаа (salaa) (Yakut), לעקן (lekn) (Yiddish), lêsen (Zazaki), riz (Zhuang)
    Sense id: en-lick-en-verb-y0Z4SmO6 Disambiguation of 'to stroke with the tongue': 91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0
  2. (transitive) To lap; to take in with the tongue. Tags: transitive Translations (to lap, to take in with the tongue): облизвам (oblizvam) (Bulgarian), lapar (Galician), lamber (Galician), lambire (Italian), alliccari (Sicilian), liccari (Sicilian), sucari (Sicilian), lamer (Spanish), lamber (Spanish), chupar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-lick-en-verb-kAUry7oL Disambiguation of 'to lap, to take in with the tongue': 5 77 1 1 1 1 0 14
  3. (colloquial) To beat with repeated blows. Tags: colloquial Synonyms (beat): clobber
    Sense id: en-lick-en-verb-FhiR5hXf Disambiguation of 'beat': 0 0 71 29 0 0 0 0
  4. (colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight. Tags: colloquial Translations (colloquial: to defeat decisively): 打敗 (Chinese Mandarin), 打败 (dǎbài) (Chinese Mandarin), pieksää (Finnish), défaire (French), vaincre (French), schlagen (German), besiegen (German), 負かす (makasu) (alt: まかす) (Japanese), побежда́ть (pobeždátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), победи́ть (pobedítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), derrotar (Spanish), somurmak (Turkish), lısten (Zazaki)
    Sense id: en-lick-en-verb-mQVguHGP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 10 6 55 9 7 4 4 Disambiguation of 'colloquial: to defeat decisively': 0 1 5 70 19 2 2 0
  5. (colloquial) To overcome. Tags: colloquial Translations (colloquial: to overcome): надминавам (nadminavam) (Bulgarian), klaarata (Finnish), vencer (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-lick-en-verb-I7QaRxs2 Disambiguation of 'colloquial: to overcome': 0 1 3 11 81 2 2 0
  6. (vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus. Tags: slang, vulgar Categories (topical): Sex Translations (vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus): лижа (liža) (Bulgarian), slikke (fisse) (Danish), nuolla (Finnish), lecken (German), nyal (Hungarian), лиже (liže) (Macedonian), лиза́ть (lizátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), alliccari (Sicilian), liccari (Sicilian), lìnciri (Sicilian), lêsnayen (Zazaki)
    Sense id: en-lick-en-verb-ebEsav4S Disambiguation of Sex: 1 1 0 2 3 0 1 1 10 3 27 7 1 1 1 2 2 34 1 1 Disambiguation of 'vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus': 0 2 2 2 3 91 1 0
  7. (colloquial) To do anything partially. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-lick-en-verb-M30Yqtv7
  8. (of flame, waves etc.) To lap. Tags: of flame
    Sense id: en-lick-en-verb-v~uEH2J-
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Inflected forms

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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "ass-licker"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "finger-lickin' good"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lick clean"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "licked"
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      "word": "lickery"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lickety split"
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      "word": "lick into shape"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lick my balls"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lick one's chops"
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      "word": "lick one's lips"
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      "word": "lick one's wounds"
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      "word": "lick out"
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      "word": "lick someone's ass"
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      "word": "lick someone's balls"
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      "word": "lickspittle"
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      "word": "lick the birse"
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      "word": "lick the dust"
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      "word": "lick the pants off"
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      "word": "lick-twat"
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      "name": "der"
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      "expansion": "Saterland Frisian likje",
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      "expansion": "Dutch likken",
      "name": "cog"
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      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "lecken"
      },
      "expansion": "German lecken",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "2": "ligid"
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      "expansion": "Old Irish ligid",
      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "lingō",
        "3": "",
        "4": "lick"
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      "expansion": "Latin lingō (“lick”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
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        "2": "ligguriō",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to lap, lick up"
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      "name": "m"
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        "2": "laižyti"
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      "expansion": "Lithuanian laižyti",
      "name": "cog"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cu",
        "2": "лизати"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Church Slavonic лизати (lizati)",
      "name": "cog"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "λείχω"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek λείχω (leíkhō)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "xcl",
        "2": "լիզեմ"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Armenian լիզեմ (lizem)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "لیسیدن",
        "tr": "lisidan"
      },
      "expansion": "Persian لیسیدن (lisidan)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "लेढि",
        "tr": "léḍhi"
      },
      "expansion": "Sanskrit लेढि (léḍhi)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "रेढि",
        "tr": "réḍhi"
      },
      "expansion": "रेढि (réḍhi)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English likken, from Old English liccian, from Proto-West Germanic *likkōn, from Proto-Germanic *likkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ- (“to lick”).\nSee also Saterland Frisian likje, Dutch likken, German lecken; also Old Irish ligid, Latin lingō (“lick”), ligguriō (“to lap, lick up”), Lithuanian laižyti, Old Church Slavonic лизати (lizati), Ancient Greek λείχω (leíkhō), Old Armenian լիզեմ (lizem), Persian لیسیدن (lisidan), Sanskrit लेढि (léḍhi), रेढि (réḍhi).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "licks",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "licking",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "licked",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "licked",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "lick (third-person singular simple present licks, present participle licking, simple past and past participle licked)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The cat licked its fur.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To stroke with the tongue."
      ],
      "id": "en-lick-en-verb-y0Z4SmO6",
      "links": [
        [
          "stroke",
          "stroke"
        ],
        [
          "tongue",
          "tongue"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To stroke with the tongue."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ain",
          "lang": "Ainu",
          "roman": "kem",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "ケㇺ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "sq",
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "lëpij"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "laḥasa",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "لَحَسَ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "laʕiqa",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "لَعِقَ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "arz",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "laḥas",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "Egyptian-Arabic"
          ],
          "word": "لحس"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ajp",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "láḥas",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "South-Levantine-Arabic"
          ],
          "word": "لحس"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "lizel",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "լիզել"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "lpstel",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "լպստել"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "as",
          "lang": "Assamese",
          "roman": "selek",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "চেলেক"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ast",
          "lang": "Asturian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "llamber"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "yalamaq"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ba",
          "lang": "Bashkir",
          "roman": "yalaw",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "ялау"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "lizácʹ",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "ліза́ць"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "bn",
          "lang": "Bengali",
          "roman": "caṭa",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "চাটা"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "bcl",
          "lang": "Bikol Central",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "dilot"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "líža",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "ли́жа"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "my",
          "lang": "Burmese",
          "roman": "lyak",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "လျက်"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "bua",
          "lang": "Buryat",
          "roman": "doljooxo",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "долёохо"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "llepar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ceb",
          "lang": "Cebuano",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "dila"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ceb",
          "lang": "Cebuano",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "tila"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ceb",
          "lang": "Cebuano",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "tilap"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "chr",
          "lang": "Cherokee",
          "roman": "aganadia",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "ᎠᎦᎾᏗᎠ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "tiǎn",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "舔"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "shì",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "舐"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "lízat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "líznout"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "slikke"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "likken"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "myv",
          "lang": "Erzya",
          "roman": "nolśems",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "нолсемс"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "leki"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "lakkuma"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "limpsima"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "eve",
          "lang": "Even",
          "roman": "dal-",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "дал-"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "fo",
          "lang": "Faroese",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "sleikja"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "nuolla"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "lécher"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "fur",
          "lang": "Friulian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "lecâ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "fur",
          "lang": "Friulian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "lenzi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "fwa",
          "lang": "Fwâi",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "hnami"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "lamber"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "loḳva",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "ლოკვა"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "lecken"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "got",
          "lang": "Gothic",
          "roman": "bilaigōn",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "𐌱𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌲𐍉𐌽"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "gleífo",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "γλείφω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "leíkhō",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "λείχω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "haw",
          "lang": "Hawaiian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "palu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "likek",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "לִקֵּק"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "cāṭnā",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "चाटना"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "nyal"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "hrx",
          "lang": "Hunsrik",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "lecke"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "sleikja"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "jilat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "izh",
          "lang": "Ingrian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "noolla"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "izh",
          "lang": "Ingrian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "kaalia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "ligh"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "sga",
          "lang": "Old Irish",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "ligid"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "leccare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "alt": "なめる",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "nameru",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "舐める"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "alt": "ねぶる",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "neburu",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "舐ぶる"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "jaz",
          "lang": "Jawe",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "hnami"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "xal",
          "lang": "Kalmyk",
          "roman": "dolax",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "долах"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "jalau",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "жалау"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "lɨt",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "លិឍ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "lɨt",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "លិទ្ធ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "halda",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "핥다"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ky",
          "lang": "Kyrgyz",
          "roman": "jaloo",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "жалоо"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "lo",
          "lang": "Lao",
          "roman": "līa",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "ເລຍ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ltg",
          "lang": "Latgalian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "lyzguot"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "lambō"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "lingō"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "laizīt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "laižyti"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "lmo",
          "lang": "Lombard",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "leccà"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "liže",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "лиже"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "jilat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "mnc",
          "lang": "Manchu",
          "roman": "ilembi",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "ᡳᠯᡝᠮᠪᡳ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "mr",
          "lang": "Marathi",
          "roman": "ċāṭṇe",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "चाटणे"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "enm",
          "lang": "Middle English",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "likken"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "enm",
          "lang": "Middle English",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "licken"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "mn",
          "lang": "Mongolian",
          "roman": "doloox",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "долоох"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "gld",
          "lang": "Nanai",
          "roman": "ile-",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "илэ-"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "nap",
          "lang": "Neapolitan",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "liccà"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "nem",
          "lang": "Nemi",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "hnami"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "nrf",
          "lang": "Norman",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "Jersey"
          ],
          "word": "litchi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "slikke"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "sleike"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "slikke"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "sleike"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "sleikje"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "lecar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "cu",
          "lang": "Church Slavic",
          "roman": "lizati",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "лизати"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "orv",
          "lang": "Old East Slavic",
          "roman": "lizati",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "лизати"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ang",
          "lang": "Old English",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "liccian"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ps",
          "lang": "Pashto",
          "roman": "caṭᶕl",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "څټل"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "bxd",
          "lang": "Pela",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "jaʔ³¹"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "lisidan",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "لیسیدن"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "piz",
          "lang": "Pije",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "hnami"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "lizać"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "lamber"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "qu",
          "lang": "Quechua",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "llaqway"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "qu",
          "lang": "Quechua",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "lampiy"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "qu",
          "lang": "Quechua",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "llagwai"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "qu",
          "lang": "Quechua",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "llunk'uy"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "linge"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "lizátʹ",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "лиза́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "oblízyvatʹ",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "обли́зывать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "liznútʹ",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "лизну́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "polizátʹ",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "полиза́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "sa",
          "lang": "Sanskrit",
          "roman": "lihati",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "लिहति"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "gd",
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "imlich"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "лизати"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "лизнути"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "lizati"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "liznuti"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "alliccari"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "liccari"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "lìnciri"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "lízať"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "lizati"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "polizati"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "dsb",
          "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "lizaś"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "hsb",
          "lang": "Upper Sorbian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "lizać"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "lamer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "lamber"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "slicka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "syl",
          "lang": "Sylheti",
          "roman": "liani",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "ꠟꠤꠀꠘꠤ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "tg",
          "lang": "Tajik",
          "roman": "lesidan",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "лесидан"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ta",
          "lang": "Tamil",
          "roman": "nakku",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "நக்கு"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "te",
          "lang": "Telugu",
          "roman": "nāku",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "నాకు"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "liia",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "เลีย"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "roman": "ldag pa",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "ལྡག་པ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "roman": "lce ldag rgyag",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "ལྕེ་ལྡག་རྒྱག"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "roman": "lce ldag brgyab",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "ལྕེ་ལྡག་བརྒྱབ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "yalamak"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "tk",
          "lang": "Turkmen",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "ýalamak"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "lyzáty",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "лиза́ти"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "roman": "cāṭnā",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "چاٹنا"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "ug",
          "lang": "Uyghur",
          "roman": "yalimaq",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "يالىماق"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "uz",
          "lang": "Uzbek",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "yalamoq"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "liếm"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "wym",
          "lang": "Vilamovian",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "łakia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "llyfu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "sah",
          "lang": "Yakut",
          "roman": "salaa",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "салаа"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "lekn",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "לעקן"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "zza",
          "lang": "Zazaki",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "lêsen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "91 9 0 0 0 0 0 0",
          "code": "za",
          "lang": "Zhuang",
          "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
          "word": "riz"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She licked the last of the honey off the spoon before washing it.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Jim closed his eyes and licked his vanilla ice cream cone.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To lap; to take in with the tongue."
      ],
      "id": "en-lick-en-verb-kAUry7oL",
      "links": [
        [
          "lap",
          "lap"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To lap; to take in with the tongue."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "5 77 1 1 1 1 0 14",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "oblizvam",
          "sense": "to lap, to take in with the tongue",
          "word": "облизвам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 77 1 1 1 1 0 14",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "to lap, to take in with the tongue",
          "word": "lapar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 77 1 1 1 1 0 14",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "to lap, to take in with the tongue",
          "word": "lamber"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 77 1 1 1 1 0 14",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to lap, to take in with the tongue",
          "word": "lambire"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 77 1 1 1 1 0 14",
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "to lap, to take in with the tongue",
          "word": "alliccari"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 77 1 1 1 1 0 14",
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "to lap, to take in with the tongue",
          "word": "liccari"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 77 1 1 1 1 0 14",
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "to lap, to take in with the tongue",
          "word": "sucari"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 77 1 1 1 1 0 14",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to lap, to take in with the tongue",
          "word": "lamer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 77 1 1 1 1 0 14",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to lap, to take in with the tongue",
          "word": "lamber"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 77 1 1 1 1 0 14",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to lap, to take in with the tongue",
          "word": "chupar"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To beat with repeated blows."
      ],
      "id": "en-lick-en-verb-FhiR5hXf",
      "links": [
        [
          "beat",
          "beat"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To beat with repeated blows."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 71 29 0 0 0 0",
          "sense": "beat",
          "word": "clobber"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "4 10 6 55 9 7 4 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "My dad can lick your dad.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight."
      ],
      "id": "en-lick-en-verb-mQVguHGP",
      "links": [
        [
          "defeat",
          "defeat"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 5 70 19 2 2 0",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
          "word": "打敗"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 5 70 19 2 2 0",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "dǎbài",
          "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
          "word": "打败"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 5 70 19 2 2 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
          "word": "pieksää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 5 70 19 2 2 0",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
          "word": "défaire"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 5 70 19 2 2 0",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
          "word": "vaincre"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 5 70 19 2 2 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
          "word": "schlagen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 5 70 19 2 2 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
          "word": "besiegen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 5 70 19 2 2 0",
          "alt": "まかす",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "makasu",
          "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
          "word": "負かす"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 5 70 19 2 2 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "pobeždátʹ",
          "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "побежда́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 5 70 19 2 2 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "pobedítʹ",
          "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "победи́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 5 70 19 2 2 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
          "word": "derrotar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 5 70 19 2 2 0",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
          "word": "somurmak"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 5 70 19 2 2 0",
          "code": "zza",
          "lang": "Zazaki",
          "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
          "word": "lısten"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I think I can lick this.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1957 December 30, Ren Grevatt, “Concensus Tabs Stereo Disk Still in Research Stage: Diskery and Phono Toppers Sound Tempering Notes of Caution”, in Billboard, page 11",
          "text": "This week, diskery and phono manufacturer spokesmen sounded tempering notes of caution as they discussed the many problems still to be licked in developing truly compatible stereo with fidelity standards equal to those now available in monaural disks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To overcome."
      ],
      "id": "en-lick-en-verb-I7QaRxs2",
      "links": [
        [
          "overcome",
          "overcome"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To overcome."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 3 11 81 2 2 0",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "nadminavam",
          "sense": "colloquial: to overcome",
          "word": "надминавам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 3 11 81 2 2 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "colloquial: to overcome",
          "word": "klaarata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 3 11 81 2 2 0",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "colloquial: to overcome",
          "word": "vencer"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "1 1 0 2 3 0 1 1 10 3 27 7 1 1 1 2 2 34 1 1",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sex",
          "orig": "en:Sex",
          "parents": [
            "All topics",
            "Reproduction",
            "Fundamental",
            "Life",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To perform cunnilingus."
      ],
      "id": "en-lick-en-verb-ebEsav4S",
      "links": [
        [
          "cunnilingus",
          "cunnilingus"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "vulgar"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 2 2 2 3 91 1 0",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "liža",
          "sense": "vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus",
          "word": "лижа"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 2 2 2 3 91 1 0",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus",
          "word": "slikke (fisse)"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 2 2 2 3 91 1 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus",
          "word": "nuolla"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 2 2 2 3 91 1 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus",
          "word": "lecken"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 2 2 2 3 91 1 0",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus",
          "word": "nyal"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 2 2 2 3 91 1 0",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "liže",
          "sense": "vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus",
          "word": "лиже"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 2 2 2 3 91 1 0",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "lizátʹ",
          "sense": "vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "лиза́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 2 2 2 3 91 1 0",
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus",
          "word": "alliccari"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 2 2 2 3 91 1 0",
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus",
          "word": "liccari"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 2 2 2 3 91 1 0",
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus",
          "word": "lìnciri"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 2 2 2 3 91 1 0",
          "code": "zza",
          "lang": "Zazaki",
          "sense": "vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus",
          "word": "lêsnayen"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To do anything partially."
      ],
      "id": "en-lick-en-verb-M30Yqtv7",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To do anything partially."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To lap."
      ],
      "id": "en-lick-en-verb-v~uEH2J-",
      "links": [
        [
          "lap",
          "lap"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "waves etc.",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of flame, waves etc.) To lap."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "of flame"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/lɪk/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪk"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-lick.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1d/En-us-lick.ogg/En-us-lick.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/En-us-lick.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (GA)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "licking"
  ],
  "word": "lick"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "a lick of"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "big lick"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "cat-lick"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "cow lick"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "French Lick"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "good lick"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lick and a promise"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lick-box"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lick-dish"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lick of paint"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lick of the tarbrush"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lick-platter"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lick-spigot"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lick-spittle"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lick spout"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lick-trencher"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lick-wimble"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "mineral lick"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "salt lick"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "The Lick"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*leyǵʰ-"
      },
      "expansion": "[Template:root]",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "likken"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English likken",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "liccian"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English liccian",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*likkōn"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *likkōn",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*likkōną"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *likkōną",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*leyǵʰ-",
        "t": "to lick"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ- (“to lick”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "stq",
        "2": "likje"
      },
      "expansion": "Saterland Frisian likje",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "likken"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch likken",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "lecken"
      },
      "expansion": "German lecken",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sga",
        "2": "ligid"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Irish ligid",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "lingō",
        "3": "",
        "4": "lick"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin lingō (“lick”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ligguriō",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to lap, lick up"
      },
      "expansion": "ligguriō (“to lap, lick up”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lt",
        "2": "laižyti"
      },
      "expansion": "Lithuanian laižyti",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cu",
        "2": "лизати"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Church Slavonic лизати (lizati)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "λείχω"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek λείχω (leíkhō)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "xcl",
        "2": "լիզեմ"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Armenian լիզեմ (lizem)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fa",
        "2": "لیسیدن",
        "tr": "lisidan"
      },
      "expansion": "Persian لیسیدن (lisidan)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "लेढि",
        "tr": "léḍhi"
      },
      "expansion": "Sanskrit लेढि (léḍhi)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
        "2": "रेढि",
        "tr": "réḍhi"
      },
      "expansion": "रेढि (réḍhi)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English likken, from Old English liccian, from Proto-West Germanic *likkōn, from Proto-Germanic *likkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ- (“to lick”).\nSee also Saterland Frisian likje, Dutch likken, German lecken; also Old Irish ligid, Latin lingō (“lick”), ligguriō (“to lap, lick up”), Lithuanian laižyti, Old Church Slavonic лизати (lizati), Ancient Greek λείχω (leíkhō), Old Armenian լիզեմ (lizem), Persian لیسیدن (lisidan), Sanskrit लेढि (léḍhi), रेढि (réḍhi).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "licks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "lick (plural licks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The cat gave its fur a lick.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue."
      ],
      "id": "en-lick-en-noun-JAW7WOGU",
      "links": [
        [
          "licking",
          "licking"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "as",
          "lang": "Assamese",
          "roman": "seleka",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "word": "চেলেকা"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "ast",
          "lang": "Asturian",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "llambedura"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "bn",
          "lang": "Bengali",
          "roman": "caṭa",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "word": "চাটা"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "bcl",
          "lang": "Bikol Central",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "word": "dilot"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "llepada"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "lízání"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "lik"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "word": "nuolaisu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "léchage"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "lambedela"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "loḳva",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "word": "ლოკვა"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Lecken"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "word": "nyalogatás"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "word": "nyalintás"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "word": "leccata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "sjd",
          "lang": "Kildin Sami",
          "roman": "njualle",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "word": "нюаллэ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "halteum",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "word": "핥음"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "kmr",
          "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "word": "alîstin"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "liženje",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "лижење"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "se",
          "lang": "Northern Sami",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "word": "njoallut"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "slikk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "slikk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "lis",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "word": "لیس"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "lisidan",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "word": "لیسیدن"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "leštan",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "word": "لشتن"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "lizanie"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "lambida"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "lizánije",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "лиза́ние"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "oblízyvanije",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "обли́зывание"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "word": "alliccata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "word": "liccata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "sma",
          "lang": "Southern Sami",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "word": "njåalodh"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "lamedura"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "slick"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "word": "pagdila"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "word": "yalamak"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "lyzánnja",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "лиза́ння"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "lek",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "לעק"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "79 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 3 2 10",
          "code": "zza",
          "lang": "Zazaki",
          "sense": "act of licking",
          "word": "lêsen"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Give me a lick of ice cream.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick."
      ],
      "id": "en-lick-en-noun-SosmFBGv",
      "links": [
        [
          "amount",
          "amount"
        ],
        [
          "substance",
          "substance"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "2 56 0 3 1 0 32 2 1 2 1",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "amount obtainable with a single lick",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "liz"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 56 0 3 1 0 32 2 1 2 1",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "liz",
          "sense": "amount obtainable with a single lick",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "лиз"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 56 0 3 1 0 32 2 1 2 1",
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "amount obtainable with a single lick",
          "word": "alliccata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 56 0 3 1 0 32 2 1 2 1",
          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "amount obtainable with a single lick",
          "word": "liccata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 56 0 3 1 0 32 2 1 2 1",
          "code": "zza",
          "lang": "Zazaki",
          "sense": "amount obtainable with a single lick",
          "word": "lêsık"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "a lick of paint",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "to put on colours with a lick of the brush",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1774, Thomas Gray, “The Candidate”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Strawberry Hill Press",
          "text": "When ſly Jemmy Twitcher had ſmugg'd up his face / With a lick of court white waſh,",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue."
      ],
      "id": "en-lick-en-noun-1TZQsbdb"
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The birds gathered at the clay lick.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A place where animals lick minerals from the ground."
      ],
      "id": "en-lick-en-noun-hIi2dReJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "place",
          "place"
        ],
        [
          "animals",
          "animals"
        ],
        [
          "minerals",
          "minerals"
        ]
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        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 0 95 0 0 2 0 1 1 0",
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          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "solište",
          "sense": "place where animals lick minerals from the ground",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
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          "word": "солище"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 0 95 0 0 2 0 1 1 0",
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          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "place where animals lick minerals from the ground",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "liz"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 1 0 95 0 0 2 0 1 1 0",
          "code": "zza",
          "lang": "Zazaki",
          "sense": "place where animals lick minerals from the ground",
          "word": "lêstık"
        }
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        {
          "text": "We used to play in the lick.",
          "type": "example"
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          "sense": "small watercourse or ephemeral stream",
          "word": "lǣċ"
        },
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        },
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          "sense": "small watercourse or ephemeral stream",
          "word": "roden"
        }
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        {
          "text": "Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1891, Cecil Roberts, Adrift in America: Or, Work and Adventure in the States, page 148",
          "text": "I went in big licks, and, although it was a good-sized pile, I chopped it all up before he got back at night.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 April 12, “Exclusive: Meet Derpuntae - Bermuda's first meme”, in The Bermuda Sun, archived from the original on 2022-12-12",
          "text": "Who gave you your worst licks and why?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        [
          "blow",
          "blow"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) A stroke or blow."
      ],
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        "colloquial"
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "4 1 3 0 0 87 2 0 1 1 1",
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          "roman": "silen udar",
          "sense": "colloquial: a stroke or blow",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "силен удар"
        },
        {
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          "code": "scn",
          "lang": "Sicilian",
          "sense": "colloquial: a stroke or blow",
          "word": "alliccata"
        },
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          "word": "sucata"
        },
        {
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          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "colloquial: a stroke or blow",
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          "text": "You don't have a lick of sense.",
          "type": "example"
        },
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          "text": "I didn't do a lick of work today.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 Allen Gregory, \"Pilot\" (season 1, episode 1)",
          "text": "Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Why don't I call Jean-Michel at Il Portofino? We'll get a table outside? Ooh, I'm not getting a lick of service. Babe, can I hop on your landline?"
        }
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        "(colloquial) A small amount; a whit."
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        {
          "_dis1": "1 4 1 13 1 8 43 1 3 22 3",
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          "sense": "colloquial: a bit",
          "word": "jako když plivne"
        }
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          "ref": "1984, Mel Tillis, Walter Wager, Stutterin' Boy, page 170",
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        "An attempt at something."
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          "text": "There are some really good blues licks in this solo.",
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        "(music) A short motif."
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          "text": "The bus was travelling at a good lick when it swerved and left the road.",
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        {
          "ref": "1852, John Denison Vose, Fresh Leaves from the Diary of a Broadway Dandy, page 109",
          "text": "Dandy Marx, a perfect gentleman in the true sense of the word, now drives forth under single harness ; whereas “once upon a time,” he rushed over the ground at a “big lick,” reigning his four beautiful roans, and continually kicking up an extra excitement among the “fashionables.”",
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        "(informal) A rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.)"
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          "text": "You up for a lick tonight?",
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        "(slang) An act of cunnilingus."
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          "ref": "2018 July 27, “Strip Talk”, Marty Mula (lyrics), 1:52",
          "text": "Bitch, pig, pull out with the stick / everything I hit like a lick / We don’t miss",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2019 January 31, Lil Darkie (prod. Wendigo), “rap music” (1:55 from the start)",
          "text": "You see a lick and you rob him / I see a lick then I stop on the block and I pause him",
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          "ref": "2020 January 9, “1AM”, in Nasty, performed by Jaykae and Kida Kudz",
          "text": "JAEKAE: Free all my G’s, they got locked for licks. Five minutes of fame and I’m hittin’ for six. Past seven, eight, nine, and you’re in my bits.",
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          "text": "Remember on my first lick, got lost in a house / Had to dip, bro, quick, before the dogs came out",
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    {
      "word": "finger-lickin' good"
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    {
      "word": "lick clean"
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    {
      "word": "licked"
    },
    {
      "word": "lickery"
    },
    {
      "word": "lickety split"
    },
    {
      "word": "lick into shape"
    },
    {
      "word": "lick my balls"
    },
    {
      "word": "lick one's chops"
    },
    {
      "word": "lick one's lips"
    },
    {
      "word": "lick one's wounds"
    },
    {
      "word": "lick out"
    },
    {
      "word": "lick someone's ass"
    },
    {
      "word": "lick someone's balls"
    },
    {
      "word": "lick someone's boots"
    },
    {
      "word": "lickspittle"
    },
    {
      "word": "lick the birse"
    },
    {
      "word": "lick the dust"
    },
    {
      "word": "lick the pants off"
    },
    {
      "word": "lick-twat"
    },
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      "word": "lick up"
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    {
      "word": "outlick"
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        {
          "text": "Jim closed his eyes and licked his vanilla ice cream cone.",
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        "(transitive) To lap; to take in with the tongue."
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      "glosses": [
        "To beat with repeated blows."
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          "beat"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To beat with repeated blows."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "My dad can lick your dad.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "defeat",
          "defeat"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I think I can lick this.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1957 December 30, Ren Grevatt, “Concensus Tabs Stereo Disk Still in Research Stage: Diskery and Phono Toppers Sound Tempering Notes of Caution”, in Billboard, page 11",
          "text": "This week, diskery and phono manufacturer spokesmen sounded tempering notes of caution as they discussed the many problems still to be licked in developing truly compatible stereo with fidelity standards equal to those now available in monaural disks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To overcome."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "overcome",
          "overcome"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To overcome."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English vulgarities"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To perform cunnilingus."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cunnilingus",
          "cunnilingus"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To do anything partially."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To do anything partially."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To lap."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lap",
          "lap"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "waves etc.",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of flame, waves etc.) To lap."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "of flame"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/lɪk/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪk"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-lick.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1d/En-us-lick.ogg/En-us-lick.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/En-us-lick.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (GA)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "beat",
      "word": "clobber"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ain",
      "lang": "Ainu",
      "roman": "kem",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "ケㇺ"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "lëpij"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "laḥasa",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "لَحَسَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "laʕiqa",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "لَعِقَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "arz",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "laḥas",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "Egyptian-Arabic"
      ],
      "word": "لحس"
    },
    {
      "code": "ajp",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "láḥas",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "South-Levantine-Arabic"
      ],
      "word": "لحس"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "lizel",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "լիզել"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "lpstel",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "լպստել"
    },
    {
      "code": "as",
      "lang": "Assamese",
      "roman": "selek",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "চেলেক"
    },
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "llamber"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "yalamaq"
    },
    {
      "code": "ba",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "yalaw",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "ялау"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "lizácʹ",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "ліза́ць"
    },
    {
      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "caṭa",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "চাটা"
    },
    {
      "code": "bcl",
      "lang": "Bikol Central",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "dilot"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "líža",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "ли́жа"
    },
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "lyak",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "လျက်"
    },
    {
      "code": "bua",
      "lang": "Buryat",
      "roman": "doljooxo",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "долёохо"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "llepar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ceb",
      "lang": "Cebuano",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "dila"
    },
    {
      "code": "ceb",
      "lang": "Cebuano",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "tila"
    },
    {
      "code": "ceb",
      "lang": "Cebuano",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "tilap"
    },
    {
      "code": "chr",
      "lang": "Cherokee",
      "roman": "aganadia",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "ᎠᎦᎾᏗᎠ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tiǎn",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "舔"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shì",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "舐"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "lízat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "líznout"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "slikke"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "likken"
    },
    {
      "code": "myv",
      "lang": "Erzya",
      "roman": "nolśems",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "нолсемс"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "leki"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "lakkuma"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "limpsima"
    },
    {
      "code": "eve",
      "lang": "Even",
      "roman": "dal-",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "дал-"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "sleikja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "nuolla"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "lécher"
    },
    {
      "code": "fur",
      "lang": "Friulian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "lecâ"
    },
    {
      "code": "fur",
      "lang": "Friulian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "lenzi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fwa",
      "lang": "Fwâi",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "hnami"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "lamber"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "loḳva",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "ლოკვა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "lecken"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "bilaigōn",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "𐌱𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌲𐍉𐌽"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "gleífo",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "γλείφω"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "leíkhō",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "λείχω"
    },
    {
      "code": "haw",
      "lang": "Hawaiian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "palu"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "likek",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "לִקֵּק"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "cāṭnā",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "चाटना"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "nyal"
    },
    {
      "code": "hrx",
      "lang": "Hunsrik",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "lecke"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "sleikja"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "jilat"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "noolla"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "kaalia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "ligh"
    },
    {
      "code": "sga",
      "lang": "Old Irish",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "ligid"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "leccare"
    },
    {
      "alt": "なめる",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "nameru",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "舐める"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ねぶる",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "neburu",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "舐ぶる"
    },
    {
      "code": "jaz",
      "lang": "Jawe",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "hnami"
    },
    {
      "code": "xal",
      "lang": "Kalmyk",
      "roman": "dolax",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "долах"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "jalau",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "жалау"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "lɨt",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "លិឍ"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "lɨt",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "លិទ្ធ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "halda",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "핥다"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "jaloo",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "жалоо"
    },
    {
      "code": "lo",
      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "līa",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "ເລຍ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ltg",
      "lang": "Latgalian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "lyzguot"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "lambō"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "lingō"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "laizīt"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "laižyti"
    },
    {
      "code": "lmo",
      "lang": "Lombard",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "leccà"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "liže",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "лиже"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "jilat"
    },
    {
      "code": "mnc",
      "lang": "Manchu",
      "roman": "ilembi",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "ᡳᠯᡝᠮᠪᡳ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "ċāṭṇe",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "चाटणे"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "likken"
    },
    {
      "code": "enm",
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "licken"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "doloox",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "долоох"
    },
    {
      "code": "gld",
      "lang": "Nanai",
      "roman": "ile-",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "илэ-"
    },
    {
      "code": "nap",
      "lang": "Neapolitan",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "liccà"
    },
    {
      "code": "nem",
      "lang": "Nemi",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "hnami"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "Jersey"
      ],
      "word": "litchi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "slikke"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "sleike"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "slikke"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "sleike"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "sleikje"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "lecar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cu",
      "lang": "Church Slavic",
      "roman": "lizati",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "лизати"
    },
    {
      "code": "orv",
      "lang": "Old East Slavic",
      "roman": "lizati",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "лизати"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "liccian"
    },
    {
      "code": "ps",
      "lang": "Pashto",
      "roman": "caṭᶕl",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "څټل"
    },
    {
      "code": "bxd",
      "lang": "Pela",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "jaʔ³¹"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "lisidan",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "لیسیدن"
    },
    {
      "code": "piz",
      "lang": "Pije",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "hnami"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "lizać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "lamber"
    },
    {
      "code": "qu",
      "lang": "Quechua",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "llaqway"
    },
    {
      "code": "qu",
      "lang": "Quechua",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "lampiy"
    },
    {
      "code": "qu",
      "lang": "Quechua",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "llagwai"
    },
    {
      "code": "qu",
      "lang": "Quechua",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "llunk'uy"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "linge"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "lizátʹ",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "лиза́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "oblízyvatʹ",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "обли́зывать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "liznútʹ",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "лизну́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "polizátʹ",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "полиза́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "lihati",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "लिहति"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "imlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "лизати"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "лизнути"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "lizati"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
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      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "alliccari"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "liccari"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "lìnciri"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "lízať"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "lizati"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "polizati"
    },
    {
      "code": "dsb",
      "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "lizaś"
    },
    {
      "code": "hsb",
      "lang": "Upper Sorbian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "lizać"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "lamer"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "lamber"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "slicka"
    },
    {
      "code": "syl",
      "lang": "Sylheti",
      "roman": "liani",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "ꠟꠤꠀꠘꠤ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "lesidan",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "лесидан"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "nakku",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "நக்கு"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "nāku",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "నాకు"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "liia",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "เลีย"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "ldag pa",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "ལྡག་པ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "lce ldag rgyag",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "ལྕེ་ལྡག་རྒྱག"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "lce ldag brgyab",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "ལྕེ་ལྡག་བརྒྱབ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "yalamak"
    },
    {
      "code": "tk",
      "lang": "Turkmen",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "ýalamak"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "lyzáty",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "лиза́ти"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "cāṭnā",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "چاٹنا"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "yalimaq",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "يالىماق"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "yalamoq"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "liếm"
    },
    {
      "code": "wym",
      "lang": "Vilamovian",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "łakia"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "llyfu"
    },
    {
      "code": "sah",
      "lang": "Yakut",
      "roman": "salaa",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "салаа"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "lekn",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "לעקן"
    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "lêsen"
    },
    {
      "code": "za",
      "lang": "Zhuang",
      "sense": "to stroke with the tongue",
      "word": "riz"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "oblizvam",
      "sense": "to lap, to take in with the tongue",
      "word": "облизвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to lap, to take in with the tongue",
      "word": "lapar"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to lap, to take in with the tongue",
      "word": "lamber"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to lap, to take in with the tongue",
      "word": "lambire"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "to lap, to take in with the tongue",
      "word": "alliccari"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "to lap, to take in with the tongue",
      "word": "liccari"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "to lap, to take in with the tongue",
      "word": "sucari"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to lap, to take in with the tongue",
      "word": "lamer"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to lap, to take in with the tongue",
      "word": "lamber"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to lap, to take in with the tongue",
      "word": "chupar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
      "word": "打敗"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dǎbài",
      "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
      "word": "打败"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
      "word": "pieksää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
      "word": "défaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
      "word": "vaincre"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
      "word": "schlagen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
      "word": "besiegen"
    },
    {
      "alt": "まかす",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "makasu",
      "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
      "word": "負かす"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pobeždátʹ",
      "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "побежда́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pobedítʹ",
      "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "победи́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
      "word": "derrotar"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
      "word": "somurmak"
    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "colloquial: to defeat decisively",
      "word": "lısten"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nadminavam",
      "sense": "colloquial: to overcome",
      "word": "надминавам"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "colloquial: to overcome",
      "word": "klaarata"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "colloquial: to overcome",
      "word": "vencer"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "liža",
      "sense": "vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus",
      "word": "лижа"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus",
      "word": "slikke (fisse)"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus",
      "word": "nuolla"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus",
      "word": "lecken"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus",
      "word": "nyal"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "liže",
      "sense": "vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus",
      "word": "лиже"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "lizátʹ",
      "sense": "vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "лиза́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus",
      "word": "alliccari"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus",
      "word": "liccari"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus",
      "word": "lìnciri"
    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "vulgar slang: to perform cunnilingus",
      "word": "lêsnayen"
    }
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    "licking"
  ],
  "word": "lick"
}

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      "word": "a lick of"
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    {
      "word": "big lick"
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      "word": "cat-lick"
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      "word": "cow lick"
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      "word": "French Lick"
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      "word": "good lick"
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      "word": "lick and a promise"
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    {
      "word": "lick-box"
    },
    {
      "word": "lick-dish"
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    {
      "word": "lick of paint"
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    {
      "word": "lick of the tarbrush"
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    {
      "word": "lick-platter"
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    {
      "word": "lick-spigot"
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    {
      "word": "lick-spittle"
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    {
      "word": "lick spout"
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    {
      "word": "lick-trencher"
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    {
      "word": "lick-wimble"
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    {
      "word": "mineral lick"
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    {
      "word": "salt lick"
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      "args": {
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      "args": {
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      "args": {
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      "args": {
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      "expansion": "Sanskrit लेढि (léḍhi)",
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      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
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          "text": "Give me a lick of ice cream.",
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          "text": "a lick of paint",
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          "text": "to put on colours with a lick of the brush",
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        {
          "ref": "1774, Thomas Gray, “The Candidate”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Strawberry Hill Press",
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        {
          "text": "The birds gathered at the clay lick.",
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        "A place where animals lick minerals from the ground."
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          "place",
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          "animals",
          "animals"
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          "minerals",
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          "text": "We used to play in the lick.",
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          "stream",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "text": "Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1891, Cecil Roberts, Adrift in America: Or, Work and Adventure in the States, page 148",
          "text": "I went in big licks, and, although it was a good-sized pile, I chopped it all up before he got back at night.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 April 12, “Exclusive: Meet Derpuntae - Bermuda's first meme”, in The Bermuda Sun, archived from the original on 2022-12-12",
          "text": "Who gave you your worst licks and why?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A stroke or blow."
      ],
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        [
          "stroke",
          "stroke"
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        [
          "blow",
          "blow"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) A stroke or blow."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You don't have a lick of sense.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "I didn't do a lick of work today.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 Allen Gregory, \"Pilot\" (season 1, episode 1)",
          "text": "Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Why don't I call Jean-Michel at Il Portofino? We'll get a table outside? Ooh, I'm not getting a lick of service. Babe, can I hop on your landline?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small amount; a whit."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "whit",
          "whit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) A small amount; a whit."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "modicum"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984, Mel Tillis, Walter Wager, Stutterin' Boy, page 170",
          "text": "Well, my album did well, but \"Ruby\" was a timely song and that wasn't the time for it to step out. […] Then Waylon Jennings took a lick at it on an album, and my old buddy Roger Miller covered it, too, in his album. And although they're outstanding artists, nothing much happened with the song.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An attempt at something."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "attempt",
          "attempt"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) An attempt at something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "en:Music"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "There are some really good blues licks in this solo.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A short motif."
      ],
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        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "motif",
          "motif"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music) A short motif."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The bus was travelling at a good lick when it swerved and left the road.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1852, John Denison Vose, Fresh Leaves from the Diary of a Broadway Dandy, page 109",
          "text": "Dandy Marx, a perfect gentleman in the true sense of the word, now drives forth under single harness ; whereas “once upon a time,” he rushed over the ground at a “big lick,” reigning his four beautiful roans, and continually kicking up an extra excitement among the “fashionables.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "speed",
          "speed"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You up for a lick tonight?",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An act of cunnilingus."
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      "links": [
        [
          "cunnilingus",
          "cunnilingus"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) An act of cunnilingus."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/lɪk/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪk"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ],
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "as",
      "lang": "Assamese",
      "roman": "seleka",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "word": "চেলেকা"
    },
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "llambedura"
    },
    {
      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "caṭa",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "word": "চাটা"
    },
    {
      "code": "bcl",
      "lang": "Bikol Central",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "word": "dilot"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "llepada"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "lízání"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lik"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "word": "nuolaisu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "léchage"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lambedela"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "loḳva",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "word": "ლოკვა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Lecken"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "word": "nyalogatás"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "word": "nyalintás"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "word": "leccata"
    },
    {
      "code": "sjd",
      "lang": "Kildin Sami",
      "roman": "njualle",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "word": "нюаллэ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "halteum",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "word": "핥음"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "word": "alîstin"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "liženje",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "лижење"
    },
    {
      "code": "se",
      "lang": "Northern Sami",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "word": "njoallut"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "slikk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "slikk"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "lis",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "word": "لیس"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "lisidan",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "word": "لیسیدن"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "leštan",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "word": "لشتن"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "lizanie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lambida"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "lizánije",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "лиза́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "oblízyvanije",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "обли́зывание"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "word": "alliccata"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "word": "liccata"
    },
    {
      "code": "sma",
      "lang": "Southern Sami",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "word": "njåalodh"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lamedura"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "slick"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "word": "pagdila"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "word": "yalamak"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "lyzánnja",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "лиза́ння"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "lek",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "לעק"
    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "act of licking",
      "word": "lêsen"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "amount obtainable with a single lick",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "liz"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "liz",
      "sense": "amount obtainable with a single lick",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "лиз"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "amount obtainable with a single lick",
      "word": "alliccata"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "amount obtainable with a single lick",
      "word": "liccata"
    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "amount obtainable with a single lick",
      "word": "lêsık"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "solište",
      "sense": "place where animals lick minerals from the ground",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "солище"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "place where animals lick minerals from the ground",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "liz"
    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "place where animals lick minerals from the ground",
      "word": "lêstık"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "small watercourse or ephemeral stream",
      "word": "lǣċ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "small watercourse or ephemeral stream",
      "word": "lǣċe"
    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "small watercourse or ephemeral stream",
      "word": "roden"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "silen udar",
      "sense": "colloquial: a stroke or blow",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "силен удар"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "colloquial: a stroke or blow",
      "word": "alliccata"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "colloquial: a stroke or blow",
      "word": "liccata"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "colloquial: a stroke or blow",
      "word": "sucata"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "colloquial: a stroke or blow",
      "word": "bofetón"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "colloquial: a stroke or blow",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "golpazo"
    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "colloquial: a stroke or blow",
      "word": "nequr"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "colloquial: a bit",
      "word": "jako když plivne"
    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "music: a short motif",
      "word": "zıwan eştış"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "licking"
  ],
  "word": "lick"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "en:Sex"
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hit a lick"
      },
      "expansion": "hit a lick",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "liquor"
      },
      "expansion": "liquor",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From hit a lick, which see. Ultimately from liquor.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "licks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {},
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      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English back-formations",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018 July 27, “Strip Talk”, Marty Mula (lyrics), 1:52",
          "text": "Bitch, pig, pull out with the stick / everything I hit like a lick / We don’t miss",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 January 31, Lil Darkie (prod. Wendigo), “rap music” (1:55 from the start)",
          "text": "You see a lick and you rob him / I see a lick then I stop on the block and I pause him",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 January 9, “1AM”, in Nasty, performed by Jaykae and Kida Kudz",
          "text": "JAEKAE: Free all my G’s, they got locked for licks. Five minutes of fame and I’m hittin’ for six. Past seven, eight, nine, and you’re in my bits.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 April 7, “Did Alotta”, Kai Bandz (lyrics), 1:07",
          "text": "Remember on my first lick, got lost in a house / Had to dip, bro, quick, before the dogs came out",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 January 2, Kruk One (lyrics and music), “Intoxicated” (1:55 from the start)",
          "text": "Is it really necessary how I live the way I do it\nI live for the lick – you see me breathing, I just proved it",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An instance or opportunity of earning money fast, usually by illegal means, thus a heist, drug deal etc. or its victim; mostly used in phrasal verbs: hit a lick, hit licks"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "heist",
          "heist"
        ],
        [
          "drug deal",
          "drug deal"
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        [
          "hit a lick",
          "hit a lick#English"
        ],
        [
          "hit licks",
          "hit licks#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "licking"
  ],
  "word": "lick"
}

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