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licking the pants off

licking the pants off is the present participle and gerund of lick the pants off.

Meaning of lick the pants off

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To thoroughly and decisively defeat someone, either in a physical fight or, figuratively, in a competition.
    • "Dang you, Luck, if you wasn't such a little runt I'd come up there and jest about lick the pants off you!"1916, B. M. Bower, chapter 9, in The Heritage of the Sioux
    Synonyms:
    clobber

Questions about licking the pants off

What is licking the pants off the present participle and gerund of?
Licking the pants off is the present participle and gerund of lick the pants off.

Words near licking the pants off in the dictionary

  1. licking someone's ass
  2. licking someone's balls
  3. licking someone's boots
  4. licking the birse
  5. licking the dust
  6. licking the pants off
  7. licking up
  8. lickings
  9. lickity
  10. lickjob
  11. lickjobs

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