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Is lick a Scrabble word?

Yes, lick is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 10 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of lick?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To stroke with the tongue.Examples: "The cat licked its fur."transitive

2. (transitive) To lap; to take in with the tongue.Examples: "She licked the last of the honey off the spoon before washing it."; "Jim closed his eyes and licked his vanilla ice cream cone."transitive

3. (colloquial, dated) To beat with repeated blows.Examples: ""What a curious kind of a fool a girl is! Never been licked in school! Shucks! What's a licking! That's just like a girl -- they're so thin-skinned and chicken-hearted. […]""Synonyms: clobbercolloquialdated

4. (colloquial, dated) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.Examples: "My dad can lick your dad."colloquialdated

5. (colloquial, dated) To overcome.Examples: "I think I can lick this."; "This week, diskery and phono manufacturer spokesmen sounded tempering notes of caution as they discussed the many problems still to be licked in developing truly compatible stereo with fidelity standards equal to those now available in monaural disks."colloquialdated

6. (vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.slangvulgar

noun (English)

1. (colloquial) A stroke or blow.Examples: "Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer."; "I went in big licks, and, although it was a good-sized pile, I chopped it all up before he got back at night."; "Who gave you your worst licks and why?"colloquial

2. (colloquial, chiefly in the negative) A small amount; a whit.Examples: "You don't have a lick of sense."; "I didn't do a lick of work today."; "Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Why don't I call Jean-Michel at Il Portofino? We'll get a table outside? Ooh, I'm not getting a lick of service. Babe, can I hop on your landline?"Synonyms: ace, tinge, atom, aught, bissel, bit, crumb, glimpsecolloquial

3. (informal) An attempt at something.Examples: "Well, my album did well, but "Ruby" was a timely song and that wasn't the time for it to step out. […] Then Waylon Jennings took a lick at it on an album, and my old buddy Roger Miller covered it, too, in his album. And although they're outstanding artists, nothing much happened with the song."informal

4. (music) A short motif.Examples: "There are some really good blues licks in this solo."

5. (informal) A rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.)Examples: "The bus was travelling at a good lick when it swerved and left the road."; "Dandy Marx, a perfect gentleman in the true sense of the word, now drives forth under single harness ; whereas “once upon a time,” he rushed over the ground at a “big lick,” reigning his four beautiful roans, and continually kicking up an extra excitement among the “fashionables.”"informal

6. (slang) An act of cunnilingus.Examples: "You up for a lick tonight?"slang

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "lick"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "lick"?

Scrabble
10 points
L1
I1
C3
K5
Words With Friends
12 points
L2
I1
C4
K5

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