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lipped off

lipped off is the simple past and past participle of lip off.

Meaning of lip off

Verb

lip off (third-person singular simple present lips off, present participle lipping off, simple past and past participle lipped off)

  1. (colloquial, intransitive) To speak rudely, harshly or belligerently.
    • She spanked hard enough that she broke the yardstick in half, and picked up the bottom half and continued on with the punishment. I hold no grudge—I deserved it for lipping off.2000, James W. Marlin, On the Other Hand: An Autobiography

Questions about lipped off

What is lipped off the simple past and past participle of?
Lipped off is the simple past and past participle of lip off.

Words near lipped off in the dictionary

  1. Lippardian
  2. Lippards
  3. Lippas
  4. Lippe
  5. lipped
  6. lipped off
  7. lipped out
  8. lippedness
  9. lippen
  10. lippened
  11. lippening

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lipped off (page history and authors); lip off (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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