lip

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♦ lip /l'ɪp/ (lips)
1 [N-COUNT] usu pl, oft poss N
Your lips are the two outer parts of the edge of your mouth.
Wade stuck the cigarette between his lips.
2 [N-COUNT] usu with supp, oft N of n
The lip of something such as a container or a high area of land is its edge.
...the lip of the jug.
...the lip of Mount Etna's smouldering crater.
= rim
3 [PHRASE] V inflects
If you lick your lips, you move your tongue across your lips as you think about or taste something pleasant.
They licked their lips in anticipation...
We swallowed the chocolates in one gulp, licking our lips.lip gloss (lip glosses)
[N-MASS]
Lip gloss is a clear or very slightly coloured substance that some women put on their lips to make them shiny.lip ser|vice
[N-UNCOUNT] usu N to n/-ing
If you say that someone pays lip service to an idea, you are critical of them because they say they are in favour of it, but they do not do anything to support it.
Unhappily, he had done no more than pay lip service to their views.up|per lip (upper lips)
1 [N-COUNT] usu sing
Your upper lip is the part of your face between your mouth and your nose.
The beginnings of a moustache showed on his upper lip.
2 [N-COUNT]
Your upper lip is the higher of your two lips.
His upper lip was flat, but the lower one sagged.
≠ lower lip

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