English

Verb

lick up ‎(third-person singular simple present licks up, present participle licking up, simple past and past participle licked up)

1. (transitive) To consume something by first licking it from a surface.
   • 2003, Peter Craven, The best Australian stories

     Politeness demanded that I wait until I'd swallowed his sperm and licked up all the slow, welling leakages before asking for information. 'You were great,' he said as we curled together, hands on cocks.

   • 1854, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Christmas Banquet

     There was likewise a homeless dog, with his tail between his legs, licking up the crumbs and gnawing the fragments of the feast

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See also

• lick clean