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lipping off

lipping off is the present participle and gerund 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 lipping off

What is lipping off the present participle and gerund of?
Lipping off is the present participle and gerund of lip off.

Words near lipping off in the dictionary

  1. lippiest
  2. Lippincott
  3. Lippincotts
  4. lippiness
  5. lipping
  6. lipping off
  7. lipping out
  8. lippings
  9. Lippitt
  10. lippitude
  11. lippitudes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lipping 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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