Meaning & use
lip smack
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Meanings
nouncountable
A sound made by pressing the lips together and quickly separating them, often to show enjoyment of food or drink.
Grammar: Countable; often used in the plural: lip smacks.
Patterns
- give a lip smack
- with a lip smack
He gave a loud lip smack after tasting the soup.
The lip smack showed how much she enjoyed the meal.
I heard a lip smack from the other side of the table.
adjectivebefore a nouninformal
Tasting very good; delicious.
Grammar: Used before a noun, especially in the phrase 'lip-smacking good'.
Patterns
- lip-smacking good
- a lip-smacking meal
The barbecue was lip-smacking good.
She served a lip-smacking dessert.
Word forms
| plural | lip smacks |
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Common combinations
- lip-smacking good
- The fried chicken was lip-smacking good.
- give a lip smack
- The baby gave a lip smack when she tasted the ice cream.
- loud lip smack
- He made a loud lip smack that annoyed everyone.
Synonyms and how they differ
Word family
- lip-smacking adjective
- Making a lip-smacking sound or tasting very good.
Commonly confused: lip smack or lipstick?
lip smack vs lipstick
Lipstick is a cosmetic for the lips; lip smack is a sound or a tasty quality.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'lip smack' correctly?
Choose one answer.
A lip smack is a sound of enjoyment, so option 1 fits. Option 0 confuses it with lipstick, option 2 treats it as an object, and option 3 uses it as a verb meaning to hit, which is incorrect.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “lip smack”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.