<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a lip, plural lips.</li><li>Anatomy, Zoology: either of the two fleshy parts or folds forming the margins of the mouth and functioning in speech.</li><li>these parts as organs of speech: I heard it from his own lips.</li><li>lipstick: She usually wears a dramatic red lip.</li><li>a projecting edge on a container or other hollow object: the lip of a pitcher.</li><li>a liplike part or structure, especially of anatomy.</li><li>any edge or rim.</li><li>the edge of an opening or cavity, as of a canyon or a wound: the lip of the crater.</li><li>Slang: impudent talk; back talk: Don't give me any of your lip.</li><li>Botany: either of the two parts into which the corolla or calyx of certain plants, especially of the mint family, is divided.</li><li>Zoology: a labium.</li><li>the outer or the inner margin of the aperture of a gastropod's shell.</li><li>Music: the position and arrangement of lips and tongue in playing a wind instrument; embouchure.</li><li>the cutting edge of a tool.</li><li>the blade, at the end of an auger, which cuts the chip after it has been circumscribed by the spur.</li><li>(in a twist drill) the cutting edge at the bottom of each flute.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>of or relating to the lips or a lip: lip ointment.</li><li>characterized by or made with the lips: to read lip movements.</li><li>superficial or insincere: to offer lip praise.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) lipped, lip·ping: to touch with the lips.</li><li>Golf: to hit the ball over the rim of (the hole).</li><li>to utter, especially softly.</li><li>to kiss.</li><li>(used without object) lipped, lip·ping: to use the lips in playing a musical wind instrument.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase</strong></p><ul><li>Slang: to talk impudently or belligerently.</li></ul>