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Meanings of lip in English

Russian
губы
Portuguese
lábio
Catalan
llavi
Spanish
labio
Wikidata

Pouring projection formed by eversion of the rim of the mouth or spout of a vessel.

        Related terms
        губы
        Spanish
        descoco

        An impudent or insolent rejoinder.

              descoco
              Portuguese
              rebordo
              Catalan
              costat
              Spanish
              lado

              The top edge of a vessel or other container.

                    rebordo
                    Usage of lip in English
                    1
                    The resolution of the problem requires more than lip service, he added.
                    The Irish Times
                    2
                    Too often in the past, lip service was paid to consumer interests.
                    The Irish Times
                    3
                    Biting her lip, the young woman immediately set her mind to work.
                    Blind willow, sleeping woman
                    4
                    It brings people a new hope, less of a stiff upper lip.
                    The Guardian
                    5
                    Oh, she really didn't want to talk about his lip right now.
                    Indecent suggestion
                    6
                    Destiny Jones: I want to continue to stay in the lip lane.
                    Ebony
                    7
                    Especially from the knight's point of view. Munoz bit his lower lip.
                    The Flanders Panel
                    8
                    Paying lip service to the concept isn't enough to make it work.
                    The Irish Times
                    9
                    All cases were children with cleft lip with or without cleft palate.
                    Pubmed
                    10
                    All we have, after 50 years, is lip service to human rights.
                    The Irish Times
                    11
                    I did note, however, her lower lip puffed out in a pout.
                    The brush-off: a hair-raising mystery
                    12
                    His eye lightened; his lip became compressed; he advanced to meet them.
                    Coningsby; Or, The New Generation
                    13
                    Lamar adjusted a lip full of tobacco and said, Doing all right.
                    Clementine
                    14
                    The simple but sinister question made Finian curl his lip in disgust.
                    The irish warrior
                    15
                    Hubert looked down again; his lip wrinkled up in a little sneer.
                    By What Authority?
                    16
                    Dominique McMullan, journalist 1 A statement lip distracts from a thousand sins.
                    The Irish Times
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                    Translations for lip
                    Portuguese
                    lábiorebordo
                    Lip through the time
                    Lip across language varieties
                    Canada
                    Common
                    United States of America
                    Common
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                    Common
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