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lip-smacking

lip-smacking adjective: tasty; appetizing.

Adjective

lip-smacking (comparative more lip-smacking, superlative most lip-smacking)

  1. (informal) Tasty; appetizing.

Adverb

lip-smacking (comparative more lip-smacking, superlative most lip-smacking)

  1. (informal, degree) Very.
    • Aunt Bessy's Easter ham is always lip-smacking good.
    • She looked so lip-smacking good that he knew even a brief conversation would be a challenge.2003, Susan Donovan, Take a Chance on Me, St. Martin's Press, page 313
    Synonyms:
    lip-smackingly

Noun

lip-smacking (plural lip-smackings)

  1. The act or an instance of smacking one's lips.
    Synonyms:
    lipsmack

lip-smacking meaning in Hindi

lip-smacking in Hindi

lip-smacking
चटकारा caṭkārā

Synonyms of lip-smacking

Forms of lip-smacking

Adjective
comparativemore lip-smacking
superlativemost lip-smacking
Adverb
comparativemore lip-smacking
superlativemost lip-smacking
Noun
plurallip-smackings

Origin of lip-smacking

See smack one's lips.

Questions about lip-smacking

What does lip-smacking mean?
Lip-smacking means tasty; appetizing.
What is lip-smacking in Hindi?
Lip-smacking in Hindi is चटकारा (caṭkārā). See Lip-smacking meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is lip-smacking?
Lip-smacking can be an adjective, an adverb or a noun.

Words near lip-smacking in the dictionary

  1. lip-reads
  2. lip-ribbon
  3. lip-server
  4. lip-servers
  5. lip-service
  6. lip-smacking
  7. lip-smackingly
  8. lip-smackings
  9. lip-strap
  10. lip-straps
  11. lip-sync

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lip-smacking (page history and authors); चटकारा (Hindi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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