Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lip-labor.
- noun The act of kissing.
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Examples
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The diggers were a sombre, preoccupied race, little given to lip-work.
Australia Felix 2003
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Less than this is wishing, or lip-work; a charm or a mummery.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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