Usually means: Edge or border of mouth.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. lip, lip-: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. The Lip, lip: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lip, lip-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lip, lip-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lip: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lip, lip: Wordnik
  7. lip: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Lip, Lip: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. LIP, lip, lip-: Wiktionary
  10. lip: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lip: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lip: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Lip, lip, lip-, the lip: Dictionary.com
  14. lip: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. lip: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. L.I.P. (Local Indigenous Personnel), LIP (clockwork company), LIP (company), Lip (album), Lip (disambiguation), Lip (gastropod), Lip (mouth), Lip: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Lip: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. lip: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. lip: Rhymezone
  20. lip, lip (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. lip: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. lip, lip-: MyWord.info
  23. LIP: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. Lip: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. lip: Free Dictionary
  26. lip: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. lip, lip-: Dictionary/thesaurus
  28. lip: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. lip-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lip (mouth), lip: Legal dictionary
  2. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Lip (mouth), lip: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Lip: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Lip: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Lip: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  8. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  9. LIP, Lip (mouth), lip(o)-, lip-: Medical dictionary
  10. Lip: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. LIP: Acronym Finder
  2. LIP: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. lip: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lip: Easton Bible

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. ORCHID GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. Lip: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  5. LIP: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. lip, lip, lip, lip: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. lip: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. lip: The Folk File
  4. lip: ESL Slang page
  5. L.I.P, l.i.p: Urban Dictionary
  6. Lip: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. lip: Golfer's Dictionary
  3. Snowboarding Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Lip: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See liping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
noun:  (countable) A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia.
noun:  (by extension, countable) The projecting rim of an open container or a bell, etc.; a short open spout.
noun:  (slang, uncountable) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
noun:  The edge of a high spot of land.
noun:  The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
noun:  (botany) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
noun:  (botany) A distinctive lower-appearing of the three true petals of an orchid.
noun:  (zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
noun:  (music, colloquial) Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
verb:  (transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).
verb:  (transitive, figurative) (of something inanimate) To touch lightly.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To wash against a surface, lap.
verb:  (intransitive) To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.
verb:  (transitive) To form the rim, edge or margin of something.
verb:  (transitive) To utter verbally.
verb:  (transitive) To simulate speech by moving the lips without making any sound; to mouth.
verb:  (sports) To make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
verb:  (transitive, music) To change the sound of (a musical note played on a wind instrument) by moving or tensing the lips.
noun:  (colloquial) Short for lipstick. [(uncountable) Makeup for the lips.]
noun:  (geology) Abbreviation of large igneous province. [(geology) An area with a very large accumulation of igneous rocks formed by extreme volcanism (commonly attributed to the eruption of a mantle plume) during a short geological timeframe.]
noun:  Abbreviation of litigant in person. [(law) A litigant without an attorney.]

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