LICK

Lick

In popular music genres such as rock or jazz music, a lick is "a stock pattern or phrase" consisting of a short series of notes that is used in solos and melodic lines and accompaniment. Licks in rock and roll are often used through a formula, and variations technique in which variants of simple, stock ideas are blended and developed during the solo.

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lick

Noun

  1. The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
    The cat gave its fur a lick.
  2. The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
    Give me a lick of ice cream.
  3. A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue.
    a lick of paint; to put on colours with a lick of the brush
  4. A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
    The birds gathered at the clay lick.
  5. A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
    We used to play in the lick.
  6. A stroke or blow.
    Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer.
  7. A bit.
    You don't have a lick of sense.
    I didn't do a lick of work today.
  8. A short motif.
    There are some really good blues licks in this solo.
  9. speed. In this sense it is always qualified by good, or fair or a similar adjective.
    The bus was travelling at a good lick when it swerved and left the road.

Verb

  1. To stroke with the tongue.
    The cat licked its fur.
  2. To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
    My dad can lick your dad.
  3. To overcome.
    I think I can lick this.
  4. To perform cunnilingus.
  5. To do anything partially.
  6. To lap
  7. To lap; to take in with the tongue.
    A cat licks milk.


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