Phrase Hound found 53 phrases and 66 compound words that contain lips. The most common are listed below. Open lips in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 53
- read my lipsUsed to emphasize a following statement (especially towards a ignorant or idiotic person)
- hot lipsThe lips of a person known for kissing.
- loose lips sink shipsSaying too much or releasing confidential information can have dangerous consequences.
- fat lipsplural of fat lip: A swelling on the lip, especially one resulting from a punch or other blow.
- inner lipsThe labia minora.
- locked lipssimple past and past participle of lock lips
- loose lipsplural of loose lip: The practice or characteristic of being overly talkative, especially with respect to inadvertently revealing information which is private or confidential.
- reading lipspresent participle and gerund of read lips
- sugar lipsA term of endearment.
- on everyone's lipsBeing the subject of general discussion or rumour.
- love lipsThe labia, namely the labia minora.
- monkey lipsAn anatomical structure in the heads of certain cetaceans involved in the production of clicks and other sounds.
- vertical lipsThe labia majora.
- read someone's lipsTo discern what someone is saying by watching the shape of the mouth rather than by hearing the sounds of the words.
- stiff upper lipsplural of stiff upper lip: The quality of being resolute and showing self-restraint, stereotypically associated with the British; especially as keep a stiff upper lip.
- loosen someone's lipsTo cause one to speak more freely; to cause one to discuss a subject that would not usually be discussed.
- lock lipsTo kiss on the lips; to engage in a French kiss.
- other lipsa female's labia majora.
- three-lipsA fish, Opsariichthys uncirostris.
- tight lipsOf a person, silence or reticence.
- boot lipsplural of boot lip: The lip at the top end of the shaft of a boot.
- gold lipsplural of gold lip: A gold-lip oyster; any of species Pinctada maxima of pearl oysters, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Pteriidae.
- lips offthird-person singular simple present indicative of lip off: To speak rudely, harshly or belligerently.
- lips outthird-person singular simple present indicative of lip out: To touch the rim of a hole or hoop but not go in.
- outer lipsThe labia majora.
Compound words 66
- BushlipsInsincere political rhetoric.
- sweetlipsAny member of the genus Plectorhinchus of fish with large fleshy lips.
- lipstickMakeup for the lips.
- PhillipsA surname originating as a patronymic derived from Philip.
- PhilipsA surname transferred from the given name.
- LipscombA surname.
- lipsticksplural of lipstick: Makeup for the lips.
- timeslipsplural of timeslip: A timesheet.
- coverslipsplural of coverslip: A thin glass plate used to cover samples mounted on a microscope slide.
- payslipsplural of payslip: A small document, included with an employee's wage or salary, giving details of income earned and tax and insurance paid.