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UNDERLIP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does underlip mean?
• UNDERLIP (noun)
The noun UNDERLIP has 1 sense:
1. the lower lip
Familiarity information: UNDERLIP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The lower lip
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("underlip" is a kind of...):
lip (either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking)
Context examples
They were all of the thinnest foreign post, and looking at them, then at him, and noticing his quiet smile, with the sharp, canine teeth lying over the red underlip, I understood as well as if he had spoken that I should be careful what I wrote, for he would be able to read it.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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