Word.ws English Dictionary

outlicks

outlicks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of outlick.

Meaning of outlick

Verb

outlick (third-person singular simple present outlicks, present participle outlicking, simple past and past participle outlicked)

  1. (dated, informal, transitive) to perform better than.
    • Things liked in girls are "a good personality," "manners," or, "she's quite special for a girl. She's a tomboy and quite interesting. Good mind. Pretty. At some things she can outlick any boy in school— skiing, for instance.1956, Arnold Gessel, Youth: the years from ten to sixteen
  2. (transitive) to lick better than.
    • December 7 2006, Lewis Smith, Irish Independent, New-found species of exotic bat outlicks all rivalshttp://www.independent.ie/world-news/americas/newfound-species-of-exotic-bat-outlicks-all-rivals-63367.html

Questions about outlicks

What is outlicks the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Outlicks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of outlick.

Words near outlicks in the dictionary

  1. Outley
  2. Outleys
  3. outlick
  4. outlicked
  5. outlicking
  6. outlicks
  7. outlie
  8. outlied
  9. outlier
  10. outlierness
  11. outliers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: outlicks (page history and authors); outlick (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “outlicks.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/outlicks. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.