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LIPPED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lipped mean?
• LIPPED (adjective)
The adjective LIPPED has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: LIPPED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a lip or lips
Context example:
a virgin purest lipped
Similar:
bilabiate; two-lipped (having two lips)
labiate; liplike (having lips or parts that resemble lips)
thick-lipped (having thick lips)
three-lipped (having three lips)
Antonym:
lipless (without a lip or lips)
Context examples
The sailor stood looking at him with puckered eyes, and with the same loose-lipped smile upon his face.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He noticed one with narrow-slitted eyes and a loose-lipped mouth.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A tiny stream flowed out of a dense fern-brake, slipped down a mossy-lipped stone, and ran across the path at their feet.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
It was a dark, handsome, clear-cut face which confronted Milverton—a face with a curved nose, strong, dark eyebrows shading hard, glittering eyes, and a straight, thin-lipped mouth set in a dangerous smile.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To my childish imagination it was a personal affair, and I for ever saw my father and this clean-shaven, thin-lipped man swaying and reeling in a deadly, year-long grapple.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided into a doddering, loose-lipped senility.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The tiny stream slipping down the mossy-lipped stone seemed suddenly to increase the volume of its gurgling noise. Save for the meadow-larks, there was no other sound.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Both of them were blue-lipped and insensible, with swollen, congested faces and protruding eyes.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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