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lip
noun- impudence; talking back UK, 1803
- Don’t you take any lip from him, Governor — Clive Exton, No Fixed Abode [Six Granada Plays], p. 138, 1959
- We took an oath not to hurt anybody on our way up, but we said it was okay to use some lip if you started to slip. — Dan Jenkins, Life Its Ownself, p. 53, 1984
- You’ll have plenty of lip, arguments, but get ’em outta here. — Josh Alan Friedman, Tales of Times Square, p. 52, 1986
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 6, March 1986
- a lawyer, especially a criminal defence lawyer US, 1929
From the image of a lawyer as a mouthpiece. - — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 13, 1945
- I don’t need a bondsman or a lip now. You don’t have a “sheet.” — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 114, 1969
- — Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang, p. 77, 1970
- in the car sales business, a potential buyer US
- — Jim Crotty, How to Talk American, p. 36, 1997
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