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lickest

lickest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of lick.

Meaning of lick

Verb

lick (third-person singular simple present licks, present participle licking, simple past and past participle licked)

  1. (transitive) To stroke with the tongue.
    • The cat licked its fur.
  2. (transitive) To lap; to take in with the tongue.
    • She licked the last of the honey off the spoon before washing it.
  3. (colloquial, dated) To beat with repeated blows.
    • "What a curious kind of a fool a girl is! Never been licked in school! Shucks! What's a licking! That's just like a girl -- they're so thin-skinned and chicken-hearted. […]"1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XX, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 163
    Synonyms:
    clobber
  4. (colloquial, dated) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
    • My dad can lick your dad.
  5. (colloquial, dated) To overcome.
    • I think I can lick this.
  6. (slang, vulgar) To perform cunnilingus.

See all 21 meanings of lick

Origin of lickest

lick + -est

Questions about lickest

What is lickest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lickest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of lick.

Words near lickest in the dictionary

  1. lickerousness
  2. lickers
  3. lickers-in
  4. lickerty
  5. lickery
  6. lickest
  7. licketh
  8. licketty
  9. lickety
  10. lickety-spit
  11. lickety-split

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