"loose lip" meaning in English

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      "form": "loose lips",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "loose-lipped"
        },
        {
          "word": "loose lips sink ships"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1940, Slogan used by US government during World War II",
          "text": "Loose lips might sink ships."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985 June 3, Richard Schickel, “Cinema: Gliberated in Dreamland Fletch”, in Time",
          "text": "In the classic dramas of private investigation, the cheeky quip is the tough guy's challenge to toughness. In Fletch the quick, smartly paced gags somehow read as signs of vulnerability. . . . Every minute you expect the hero's loose lip to be turned into a fat one.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996 August 25, Donald E. Westlake, “Tough Guys Don't Shut Up”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-05-29",
          "text": "Poor fellow, he had \"cemented my reputation forever as a guy who tells too much truth.\" . . . But his loose lip has ultimately worked out for him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The practice or characteristic of being overly talkative, especially with respect to inadvertently revealing information which is private or confidential."
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        ],
        [
          "characteristic",
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        ],
        [
          "talkative",
          "talkative"
        ],
        [
          "inadvertently",
          "inadvertently"
        ],
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          "private",
          "private"
        ],
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          "confidential"
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      "qualifier": "often pluralized",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, often pluralized) The practice or characteristic of being overly talkative, especially with respect to inadvertently revealing information which is private or confidential."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "silence is golden"
        },
        {
          "word": "talk out of turn"
        }
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "big mouth"
        },
        {
          "word": "loquaciousness"
        }
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  "word": "loose lip"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "loose-lipped"
    },
    {
      "word": "loose lips sink ships"
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "word": "silence is golden"
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      "word": "talk out of turn"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1940, Slogan used by US government during World War II",
          "text": "Loose lips might sink ships."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985 June 3, Richard Schickel, “Cinema: Gliberated in Dreamland Fletch”, in Time",
          "text": "In the classic dramas of private investigation, the cheeky quip is the tough guy's challenge to toughness. In Fletch the quick, smartly paced gags somehow read as signs of vulnerability. . . . Every minute you expect the hero's loose lip to be turned into a fat one.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996 August 25, Donald E. Westlake, “Tough Guys Don't Shut Up”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-05-29",
          "text": "Poor fellow, he had \"cemented my reputation forever as a guy who tells too much truth.\" . . . But his loose lip has ultimately worked out for him.",
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        }
      ],
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        "The practice or characteristic of being overly talkative, especially with respect to inadvertently revealing information which is private or confidential."
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "inadvertently",
          "inadvertently"
        ],
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          "private",
          "private"
        ],
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        "(idiomatic, often pluralized) The practice or characteristic of being overly talkative, especially with respect to inadvertently revealing information which is private or confidential."
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "big mouth"
    },
    {
      "word": "loquaciousness"
    }
  ],
  "word": "loose lip"
}