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LIPPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lipped mean? 

LIPPED (adjective)
  The adjective LIPPED has 1 sense:

1. having a lip or lipsplay

  Familiarity information: LIPPED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LIPPED (adjective)


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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