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lick
noun- a musical phrase UK, 1932
- Many of the younger social and diplomatic sets get a bang out of hot licks. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 17, 1951
- Some big symphony trumpet player came up and asked me how I done it, said I was doing everything all wrong, but playing licks he couldn’t play himself. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 196, 1961
- [M]usicians with their “licks” and “chops”. — Sean Hutchinson, Crying Out Loud, p. 176, 1988
- Excellent melodic ornaments are called “hot licks”. “Kinda kung-fu meets dance. That’s the lick that, it’s got everything” — Diran Abedayo, My Once Upon A Time, p. 125, 2000
- a small amount US, 1814
- She can’t ride worth a lick anyway. — Terry Southern, Texas Summer, p. 136, 1991
- I assume they were resting. I never saw them do a lick of work. — Rhiannon Paine, Too Late for the Festival, p. 25, 1999
- in betting, a huge win AUSTRALIA
- In the mid-1960’s, punter Peter Huxley, the former secretary of the Rural Bank of NSW, told a court he would need “a big lick” to meet his debts. — Ned Wallish, The Truth Dictionary of Racing Slang, p. 6, 1989
- a robbery US, 2002
- “I do jewelry licks. I go in jewelry stores, jack ’em up, go sell the jewelry.” — Leon Bing, Do or Die, p. 33, 1991
- Smith admitted he heard Stroud and others planning “a lick” (street slang for robbery) at a white house in the country after Payne was at a house in the 1700 block of South Walnut Street. — South Bend (Indiana) Tribune, p. D1, 16 July 2002
- “Man,” Huckabuck says, “we gotta hit a lick so we can buy better guns.” — Colton Simpson, Inside the Crips, p. 34, 2005
- a fast speed UK, 1847
- Proceeding at a lick, too, for [...] Wembley took only 300 working days to build. — The Guardian, 12 May 2001
- an intoxicating experience with crack cocaine UK
- I remember the first lick I ever had, it was brilliant. — Lanre Fehintola, Charlie Says..., p. 112, 2000
- any mistake, from a slight error to a complete disaster US Vietnam war usage.
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 127, 1991
- oral sex US
- — Kenn “Naz” Young, Naz’s Underground Dictionary, p. 43, 1973
- a serving of ice-cream NEW ZEALAND
- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 79, 1998
- a liquor store US
- “Let’s got peep a lick, Salt,” Little Rock said, using street slang for casing a liquor store to rob. — Bob Sipchen, Baby Insane and the Buddha, p. 197, 1993
▶ the lick
anything that is currently considered as stylish, fashionable or best UK- The “new lick” is the Electric Scooter: much quieter than the petrol version[.] — Julian Johnson, Urban Survival, p. 222, 2003
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