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lip-lock

lip-lock noun: long kiss.

Noun

lip-lock (countable and uncountable, plural lip-locks)

  1. Long kiss
    • But if he's recently switched from cheek-peck to lip-lock, something's up.1997, Mademoiselle: The Magazine for the Smart Young Woman
    • After lots of talk about "the perfect kiss," their close-up lip-lock is surprisingly boring.2007 December 20, Matt Stevens, “E! Reviews: P.S. I Love You”, in E! Online, retrieved 23 Jan 2008
  2. Technique for hooking a fish
    • Many bass anglers I've known prefer a lip-lock to this gill method, and it surely does work for hoisting ol' funnel-mouth into the boat.1974, Bob Zwirz, The ABC's of fishing, page 48
    • The Leech Lake lip-lock may sound more difficult, but it's really quite easy to perform and works well on a pike that persists in rolling away from you.1993, Barry Reynolds, John Berryman, Pike on the Fly, page 129

Verb

lip-lock (third-person singular simple present lip-locks, present participle lip-locking, simple past and past participle lip-locked)

  1. (US, slang) To kiss for an extended period of time.
    • And I'm hardly a lesbian assistant! I mean, I am an assistant, and I do like Ellen DeGeneres's talk show, and sometimes I watch The L Word, but that doesn't mean I want to lip-lock the ladies.2008, Jordan Cooke, Loose Lips #2
    • In Psalm 85, it says that "justice and peace/ mercy and truth" have kissed. In Jesus they lip-locked forever.2009, Leonard Sweet, So Beautiful: Divine Design for Life and the Church
  2. To hook a fish by inserting a curled finger under the gill cover and extending it to the fish's jaw.
    • Never try to lip-lock a brawling bigmouth after dark.1992, Michigan Out-of-doors - Volume 46, page 40
    • If any professional angler can tell you the best way to lip-lock a lunker, it's Jimmy Houston.2007, Field and Stream - Volume 112, page 70

Examples of lip-lock in a sentence

  • A couple minutes of lip-lock, and she'd been trying to get into his pants.2008, Pamela Clare, Unlawful Contact, page 147:
  • Michelle and Evan begin to lip-lock, and Amy tries not to watch.2010, Wes E. Samuels, Amy's Dreams, page 52:

Forms of lip-lock

Noun
plurallip-locks
Verb
third-person singular presentlip-locks
present participlelip-locking
past participlelip-locked
pastlip-locked

Questions about lip-lock

What does lip-lock mean?
Lip-lock means long kiss.
How do you use lip-lock in a sentence?
A couple minutes of lip-lock, and she'd been trying to get into his pants.
What part of speech is lip-lock?
Lip-lock can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of lip-lock?
The plural of lip-lock is lip-locks.

Words near lip-lock in the dictionary

  1. lip-
  2. lip-deep
  3. lip-glossed
  4. lip-labor
  5. lip-labour
  6. lip-lock
  7. lip-locked
  8. lip-locking
  9. lip-locks
  10. lip-pierced
  11. lip-read

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