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lip flaps

lip flaps is the plural of lip flap.

Meaning of lip flap

Noun

lip flap (countable and uncountable, plural lip flaps)

  1. A failure in audio-video synchronization, so that an actor's lips move but no sound is heard.
  2. A movement of an actor's lips, which is to be matched as closely as possible in a dubbed version of the film.
    • […] pick it up earlier or later where there is no lip-flap. But if you must take it there, then you must precede it with another shot of the same speaker at a different angle, hopefully closer.1972, Filmmakers Newsletter, volume 5, number 7, part 12, page 46
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lip, flap.

Questions about lip flaps

What is lip flaps the plural of?
Lip flaps is the plural of lip flap.

Words near lip flaps in the dictionary

  1. lip dubs
  2. lip duo
  3. lip duos
  4. lip fern
  5. lip flap
  6. lip flaps
  7. lip flip
  8. lip flips
  9. lip gloss
  10. lip glosses
  11. lip homage

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