pucker up

English

A girl puckering up

Verb

pucker up (third-person singular simple present puckers up, present participle puckering up, simple past and past participle puckered up)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles; used especially of the lips when whistling or kissing.

   Pucker up your lips!

   Pucker up and gimme a kiss!

   • 1998, “Every You Every Me”, in Without You I’m Nothing, performed by Placebo:

     Sucker love is heaven sent / You pucker up, our passion's spent

Translations

To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles

• Czech: špulit impf (ústa)
• Finnish: mutristaa
• Russian: мо́рщиться (ru) n (mórščitʹsja), вытя́гивать губки n (vytjágivatʹ gubki)