licked

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪkt/
• Rhymes: -ɪkt

Adjective

licked (comparative more licked, superlative most licked)

1. Having been the target of a lick; touched by a tongue.
   • 2018 March 12, Ligaya Mishan, “Filipino Food Finds a Place in the American Mainstream”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-24:

     But the mineral-rich blood is what gives the stew its ballast and faintly metallic hint of a licked knife.

   • 2021 December 29, Rachel Gutman-Wei, “A Very Radical, Very Delicious Take on Risk Management”, in The Atlantic‎^[2], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-05:

     The CDC estimates that one in six Americans gets a foodborne disease every year. And you know what? I'm probably two or three of them. I can't remember a time in my life before I licked the beaters clean. Tempting a stomachache for the sweet, gritty satisfaction of a licked beater has always been a game of roulette that I'm willing to play.

2. (slang) Utterly beaten.
   • 2021 April 26, Andrew Sparrow, quoting Boris Johnson, “UK Covid: Boris Johnson ’corrupting standards of public life’, says Labour’s Rachel Reeves – as it happened”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-30:

     The numbers of deaths, the number of hospitalisations, are currently very low. That doesn't mean that we have got it totally licked, it doesn't mean that Covid is over.

Derived terms

• prelicked
• unlicked

 

Verb

licked

1. simple past and past participle of lick

References

• “licked, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• Jonathon Green (2024) “licked adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Anagrams

• Dickel