lip-sync

See also: lipsync and lip sync

English

Alternative forms

• lip-synch, lipsynch, lip sync, lipsync

Etymology

From lip sync.

Verb

lip-sync (third-person singular simple present lip-syncs, present participle lip-syncing, simple past and past participle lip-synced)

1. (music, singing) To move lips in synchronization with sounds (generally recorded) so it appears they are the source of the sounds.

   She lip-synced to her own recording during the show because of her laryngitis.

   There was a great scandal when it was discovered the singer had been only lip-syncing.

   • 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, “Life in a Russian Prison”, in New York Times‎^[1], retrieved 24 September 2013:

     Tolokonnikova is one of two members of the punk group Pussy Riot who are serving two-year sentences for lip-syncing and playing air guitar for 40 seconds in a peaceful protest in the largest Moscow cathedral.

Coordinate terms

• mime

Derived terms

• lip-syncer

Translations

to move lips in synchronization with sounds

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 假唱 (zh) (jiǎchàng), 對嘴／对嘴 (zh) (duìzuǐ), 咪嘴 (mīzuǐ)

• Dutch: playbacken (nl), lippen (nl)
• Finnish: liikutella huuliaan, huulisynkata, laulaa playbackina
• French: faire du playback, chanter en playback
• German: lippensynchron singen
• Hungarian: tátog (hu)
• Italian: cantare in playback
• Japanese: 口パクする (ja) (kuchipaku suru), リップシンクする (rippushinku suru)
• Norwegian: leppesynkronisering
• Polish: śpiewać z playbacku impf
• Portuguese: usar playback
• Russian: исполня́ть под фоногра́мму impf (ispolnjátʹ pod fonográmmu)
• Spanish: hacer playback
• Swedish: mima (sv), läppsynka
• Ukrainian: виконува́ти під фоногра́му impf (vykonuváty pid fonohrámu)
• Vietnamese: hát nhép