lips

See also: Lips and LIPs

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: lĭps, IPA^(key): /lɪps/

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• Rhymes: -ɪps

Noun

lips

1. plural of lip

Derived terms

• dicksucking lips
• hot lips
• my lips are sealed
• pussy lips
• outer lips
• read my lips
• read somebody's lips
• sugar lips
• inner lips
• tight lips
• vertical lips

Verb

lips

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of lip

Verb

lips (third-person singular simple present lipses, present participle lipsing, simple past and past participle lipsed)

1. (MLE) To kiss (passionately), to smooch.
   • 2014, Skepta, Jme (lyrics and music), “That's Not Me” (track 10), in Konnichiwa, performed by Skepta featuring Jme:

     Nah, that's not me / Act like a wasteman? That's not me / Sex any girl? Nah, that's not me / Lips any girl? Nah, that's not me

Further reading

• Jonathon Green (2024) “lips v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Anagrams

• LISP, LSPI, Lisp, lisp, pils, slip

Estonian

Etymology

From German Schlips.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlips/, [ˈlʲips]
• Rhymes: -ips
• Hyphenation: lips

Noun

lips (genitive lipsu, partitive lipsu)

1. tie, necktie
2. (colloquial) bow (a (wide) ribbon, belt, etc. tied or attached as decoration)

Declension

Declension of lips (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		lips	lipsud
accusative	nom.
	gen.	lipsu
genitive			lipsude
partitive		lipsu	lipse lipsusid
illative		lipsu lipsusse	lipsudesse lipsesse
inessive		lipsus	lipsudes lipses
elative		lipsust	lipsudest lipsest
allative		lipsule	lipsudele lipsele
adessive		lipsul	lipsudel lipsel
ablative		lipsult	lipsudelt lipselt
translative		lipsuks	lipsudeks lipseks
terminative		lipsuni	lipsudeni
essive		lipsuna	lipsudena
abessive		lipsuta	lipsudeta
comitative		lipsuga	lipsudega

Derived terms

• kikilips (bowtie)

Further reading

• “lips”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “lips”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• lips in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)