Synonyms for lip
lɪplip

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1. lipnoun

   The rim of an open container.

   Don’t give me any lip!

   Synonyms:
   backchat, rudeness, labium, edge, impudence, rim, cheek

2. lipverb

   To simulate speech merely by lip-movement, as suffices for a lip-reader

   Synonyms:
   labium

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lipnoun

   either of two fleshy folds of tissue that surround the mouth and play a role in speaking

   Synonyms:
   brim, mouth, rim, sass, sassing, backtalk, back talk

2. lipnoun

   (botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx

   Synonyms:
   brim, mouth, rim, sass, sassing, backtalk, back talk

3. sass, sassing, backtalk, back talk, lip, mouthnoun

   an impudent or insolent rejoinder

   "don't give me any of your sass"

   Synonyms:
   sassing, rima oris, oral fissure, mouthpiece, mouth, back talk, backtalk, rim, brim, oral cavity, sass

4. brim, rim, lipnoun

   the top edge of a vessel or other container

   Synonyms:
   sassing, sass, back talk, mouth, brim, flange, rim, backtalk

5. lipnoun

   either the outer margin or the inner margin of the aperture of a gastropod's shell

   Synonyms:
   brim, mouth, rim, sass, sassing, backtalk, back talk

Matched Categories

1. • Articulator
   • Botany
   • Edge
   • External Body Part
   • Margin
   • Plant Part
   • Rejoinder

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lipnoun

   Synonyms:
   edge or border (of the mouth, &c.)

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1. lipnoun

   Associated words:
   labial, labially, labialize, labialization, labialism, chiloma, labret, philtrum, pout, labiochorea, cheiloplasty, labioplasty, harelip, blobber lip

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "lip":

   pil, lips, labial, ppi, verve

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1. William Hartung:

   The Obama administration is basically tolerating civilian casualties in Yemen and giving lip service that they are concerned.

2. Marie Osmond:

   When you can't hear, you can't hear, Osmond said. I don’t care what you think. People think you can hear. You don’t know what to sing to. You don't know what pitch to sing in, and they go, ‘You know, it was lip-synched.’ just so you know, most of those big shows are [lip-synched] because they don’t want a mishap, and they want to make sure that everything is right.

3. Rush Limbaugh:

   The media run this game, the media in their minds and the way everybody plays the game, you have to go through the media to get where you want to go if you are in politics. You have to, and you have to bite your lip along the way. And if you don't, then you have made a perpetual enemy of people, as goes the saying, who by ink by the barrel.

4. Patrick Rodgers:

   I really felt like I played decently coming in, but just playing a U.S. Open, you’re sometimes a bounce away or a lip-out away from a tough hole or a tough situation, that's just part of this event.

5. Nelson Moses:

   These are helpful but seem to be reductive and appear to pay mere lip service.