verb
To stroke with the tongue.
The cat licked its fur.
To lap; to take in with the tongue.
She licked the last of the honey off the spoon before washing it.
Jim closed his eyes and licked his vanilla ice cream cone.
To beat with repeated blows.
"What a curious kind of a fool a girl is! Never been licked in school! Shucks! What's a licking! That's just like a girl -- they're so thin-skinned and chicken-hearted. […]"
To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
My dad can lick your dad.
To overcome.
I think I can lick this.
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.
noun
The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
The cat gave its fur a lick.
The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
Give me a lick of ice cream.
A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue.
a lick of paint
to put on colours with a lick of the brush
A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
The birds gathered at the clay lick.
A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
We used to play in the lick.
noun
An instance or opportunity to earn 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
Bitch, pig, pull out with the stick / everything I hit like a lick / We don’t miss
You see a lick and you rob him / I see a lick then I stop on the block and I pause him