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licked

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

  • //lɪkt//

Having been the target of a lick; touched by a tongue.

adjective

  1. 1

    Having been the target of a lick; touched by a tongue.

    But the mineral-rich blood is what gives the stew its ballast and faintly metallic hint of a licked knife.

    The CDC estimates that one in six Americans gets a foodborne disease every year. And you know what? I'm probably two or three of them. I can't remember a time in my life before I licked the beaters clean. Tempting a stomachache for the sweet, gritty satisfaction of a licked beater has always been a game of roulette that I'm willing to play.

  2. 2

    slangUtterly beaten.

    The numbers of deaths, the number of hospitalisations, are currently very low. That doesn't mean that we have got it totally licked, it doesn't mean that Covid is over.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of licksimple past and past participle of lick

Forms

comparative
more licked
superlative
most licked
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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