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LICKED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having been got the better of
Example:
I'm pretty beat up but I don't feel licked yet
Classified under:
Similar:
defeated (beaten or overcome; not victorious)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb lick
Context examples:
Bannister licked his dry lips.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The wood had been soaked in oil, for in an instant it was ablaze, and a long, hissing, yellow flame licked over the heads of the defenders, and drove them further up to the first floor of the keep.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Kiche licked White Fang soothingly with her tongue, and tried to prevail upon him to remain with her.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
This is a grudge-fight an' it's to a finish. Understand? Somebody's goin' to get licked.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Then she paused, and I could hear the churning sound of her tongue as it licked her teeth and lips, and could feel the hot breath on my neck.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Of this last Buck was never guilty, though he did see beaten dogs that fawned upon the man, and wagged their tails, and licked his hand.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Then she took a walk upon the roofs of the town, looked out for opportunities, and then stretched herself in the sun, and licked her lips whenever she thought of the pot of fat, and not until it was evening did she return home.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
It increased my sufferings greatly to see the pats she gave him for punishment on the bridge of his blunt nose, while he winked his eyes, and licked her hand, and still growled within himself like a little double-bass.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He licked his chops and waited.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Why couldn't Cheese-Face be licked? he often thought; that would put him, Martin, out of his misery.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
