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"LICKS" is a plural of: lick. |
Date "LICKS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang | Noun. Source: Lick, but not licks means to pass the tongue over. To lick, a verb. Definition: 1) You learn to play part of someone else's piece, usually a solo. The piece that you learn would be the lick and you are repeating/mimicing it. Context: This would be used to explain that you had learned a new chord progression, for example, that was someone else's creation. Social Source: Band Members (Musicians and Singers). Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Crosswords: LICKS |
| English words defined with "LICKS": Licker. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Bo, He licks his own butt, I don't think he will mind. (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan) I-- I-- I hate the way she licks stamps! (Ruthless People; writing credit: O. Henry; Dale Launer) And then your mother goes around the corner and she licks it up. (Stand by Me; writing credit: Raynold Gideon) I want it, I need it, I love it when a beautiful woman licks between my toes. (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls; writing credit: Roger Ebert; Russ Meyer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rolling Stones: Forty Licks World Tour Live at Madison Square Garden (2003) Best of Licks 13 (2003) Hard Licks (1993) Bay City Hot Licks (1993) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | East Montpelier, Vermont. Richard, age five, son of Charles Ormsbee, who licks all the savings stamps and helps in other ways in the family war projects. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | So he had sunk to the state of a beast that licks his chaps after meat. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It licks its chaps from time to time. |
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| "LICKS" is generally used as a lexical verb (-s form) -- approximately 58.11% of the time. "LICKS" is used about 74 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 58.11% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Noun (plural) | 41.89% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Total | 100.00% | 74 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "LICKS". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Zelek | N/A | Biblical | The shadow or noise of him that licks or laps |
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| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "LICKS": guitar-licks. | |
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| Language | Translations for "LICKS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | leckt (leaks). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | ez nekem magas (it is beyond my comprehension, it's above me, that licks me, this beats me). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ickslay slickar. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "LICKS": lickspit, lickspits, lickspittle, lickspittles. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "LICKS": bootlicks, clicks, cowlicks, flicks, killicks, niblicks, outslicks, rollicks, shashlicks, slicks. (additional references) | |
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"LICKS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ickes, icks, ilicis, lackes, lcis, licas, Liccy, lices, licik, licke, licky, lics, liks, likx, limks, lincki, lisk, lix, lixs, loock, Luick, luke, lycus, oicks, Ulick. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "LICKS" (pronounced li"ks) |
| 4 | l i" k s | clicks, cliques, flicks, slicks. |
| 3 | -i" k s | bricks, chicks, Dicks, fix, Hicks, intermix, kicks, mix, Nicks, Nix, picks, pix, pricks, ricks, six, sticks, ticks, tics, transfix, tricks, Wicks. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: slick. | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-k-l-s" | |
-1 letter: ilks, lick, sick, silk. | |
-2 letters: cis, ick, ilk, lis, sic, ski. | |
-3 letters: is, li, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-k-l-s" | |
+1 letter: clicks, clinks, flicks, sickle, sickly, slicks. | |
+2 letters: calkins, kylices, lickers, luckies, mickles, nickels, nickles, pickles, saclike, sickled, sickles, skaldic, slicked, slicker, slickly, stickle, tickles. | |
+3 letters: backlist, backslid, blackish, blockish, brickles, calfskin, clarkias, clerkish, clickers, clinkers, cowlicks, crinkles, disclike, ficklest, flickers, hillocks, killicks, killocks, lickings, lickspit, limbecks, linstock, lipstick, lobstick, lopstick, lovesick, luckiest, micklest, niblicks, outslick, prickles, rollicks, sacklike, scablike, sculking, scumlike, sickerly, sicklied, sicklier, sicklies, sicklily, sickling, slacking, slickers, slickest, slicking, stickful, stickily, stickled, stickler, stickles, stockily, strickle, suchlike, suckling, ticklers, ticklish, trickles. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Names: Derived from 10. Expressions 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Bibliography |
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