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licking

2 syllables
noun
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As a noun, licking means the act by which something is licked.

Meanings of licking

5 meanings

noun

  1. The act by which something is licked.

  2. informalA severe beating.

  3. informalA great loss or defeat.

    “Our football team took a licking last night.”

  4. An unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest

    “it was a narrow defeat”

    “the army's only defeat”

    “they suffered a convincing licking”

    Similar: defeat

  5. The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows

    Similar: beating, thrashing, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking

verb

Present participle of lick

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

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noun: an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest
defeat
noun: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated b…
beatingthrashingdrubbinglacingtrouncingwhacking

Words that rhyme with licking

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