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lips off

lips off is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 lips off

What is lips off the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lips off is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lip off.

Words near lips off in the dictionary

  1. lipreading
  2. lipreads
  3. liprotide
  4. liprotides
  5. lips
  6. lips off
  7. lips out
  8. lipsalve
  9. lipsalves
  10. lipsanotheca
  11. Lipschitz

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