licks

Noun

lick (plural licks)

1. The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
   • The cat gave its fur a lick.
2. The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
   • Give me a lick of ice cream.
3. A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue.
   • a lick of paint
4. A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
   • The birds gathered at the clay lick.
5. A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
   • We used to play in the lick.
6. (colloquial) A stroke or blow.
   • Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer.

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