liplock
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liplock (countable and uncountable, plural liplocks)
- (chiefly US, informal) A kiss or the act of kissing; especially a long, passionate kiss.
- 1989, Charles Nelson, Panthers in the Skins of Men, page 25:
- We figgered a gal might give us a lil liplock.
- 1997 April 14, Bruce Handy, “Roll Over, Ward Cleaver”, in Time:
- The character is also denied an affirming liplock with her female love interest—a former taboo that was long ago shattered by L.A. Law, Roseanne and, earlier this season, Relativity (men kissing men, on the other hand, remains, for now, a no-no).
- 2015, Bryan Cohen, Portal Combat:
- Dhiraj leaned over and kissed her on the lips. She gently returned the liplock.
- (fishing) A maneuver in which a fish is hooked by a curled finger inserted under the gill cover and extending to the fish's jaw.
- 1991, Outdoor Oklahoma - Volumes 47-48, page 31:
- Regardless of whatever other qualities may differentiate Sooner fishermen, they are identical in that each has spent a good part of their lives dreaming about catching one nice bass — a whopper of such bulk that the traditional thumb and forefinger liplock wouldn't be nearly enough to hoist their catch into the boat.
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liplock (third-person singular simple present liplocks, present participle liplocking, simple past and past participle liplocked)
- Alternative form of lip-lock
- 1993, Louis M. Crosier, Losing It: The Virginity Myth, page 83:
- In terms of effectiveness, it must have been a pretty decent line, because she just smiled and liplocked me.
- 2000, John Paschal, Mark Louis, The Single Man, page 116:
- A bout with the common cold was fair tradeoff for the chance to liplock with Joy Jeffers, the prettiest girl in school.
- 2005, Cathryn Michon, The Grrl Genius Guide to Sex (with Other People):
- Of course, I hadn't told David that I regarded him as sort of an amphibious starter kit, one of a series of frogs I would need to liplock on my way to finding, if not an actual prince, at the very least a somewhat normal guy.