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Meanings of lick in English
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Synonyms
Examples for "punch"
Examples for "punch"
1
Such a three-punch crisis combo of health, financial and economic is new.
2
The trailer does, however, punch home one potential problem for the film-makers.
3
Acer makes some great budget monitors that punch above their price point.
4
Nations of four million are simply not supposed to punch this strongly.
5
I considered what she'd just said-notthe story about the honeydew punch-out
1
Poppy had started using her pencil to poke holes in her paper.
2
Then they can poke out their long, sticky arms and snag food.
3
I gave him a fast hard poke that couldn't have felt good.
4
I read the letter and poke it into the stove, and proceed.
5
Kids at school and opposing sporting teams would 'poke' fun at me.
1
Put simply, they believe that serious transfer market clout will be theirs.
2
Others worry U.S. military clout may ultimately be used to seize resources.
3
They also have clout as major investors in oil and coal companies.
4
They long ago lost the numbers but they never lost their clout.
5
And of course asylum seekers have no economic and social clout whatever.
1
Have they ensured poisonous slug pellets are not used in the area?
2
These results suggest an association between ERK-regulated cell migration and slug expression.
3
Fabrizzio handed him a wine bottle and Michael took a long slug.
4
I shudder, thinking about the size of the slug it would've produced.
5
Perhaps it couldn't penetrate fast enough to slug you all at once.
1
You was right in his arms, and you hadda go an' biff him.
2
It was biff-biff, and biff again, but not nip and tuck for long.
3
Say it once again, and I'll biff you where you stand.
4
I miss a signal, big stick butts against something solid; biff!
5
When you biff me into the corner I can come bouncing back for more.
Usage of lick in English
1
So far, I'm the only one who's done a lick of work.
2
I never saw either one of them do a lick of work.
3
As he watches, fire begins to lick free of the engine block.
4
Don't you remember how you used to love to lick on it?
5
Beggar turned at the door and got in his lick of revenge.
6
Then there's this: Computer animation has yet to lick the warmth factor.
7
For a moment I think I will lick him; then I laugh.
8
Luckily Parliament has rules to encourage a lick of rapid spring cleaning.
9
I was going to lick everybody in the jail, if I must.
10
We both need to lick our wounds and get over what happened.
11
Roberta says Ms. Minnie's admonishment didn't matter a lick to ol' Sam.
12
The last time it had a new lick of paint was 1952.
13
In any event, Kanye West did not make a lick of sense.
14
He could not run, as we were still in the alkali lick.
15
He went in, and began to lick her bleeding shoulders and head.
16
Benvenuto raised his right front paw and gave it a casual lick.
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
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