lip-lock

See also: liplock and lip lock

English

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Noun

lip-lock (countable and uncountable, plural lip-locks)

1. Alternative spelling of liplock
   1. Long kiss
      • 1997, Mademoiselle: The Magazine for the Smart Young Woman:

        But if he's recently switched from cheek-peck to lip-lock, something's up.

      • 2007 December 20, Matt Stevens, “E! Reviews: P.S. I Love You”, in E! Online, retrieved 23 Jan. 2008:

        After lots of talk about "the perfect kiss," their close-up lip-lock is surprisingly boring.

      • 2008, Pamela Clare, Unlawful Contact, page 147:

        A couple minutes of lip-lock, and she'd been trying to get into his pants.

   2. Technique for hooking a fish
      • 1974, Bob Zwirz, The ABC's of fishing, page 48:

        Many bass anglers I've known prefer a lip-lock to this gill method, and it surely does work for hoisting ol' funnel-mouth into the boat.

      • 1993, Barry Reynolds, John Berryman, Pike on the Fly, page 129:

        The Leech Lake lip-lock may sound more difficult, but it's really quite easy to perform and works well on a pike that persists in rolling away from you.

Verb

lip-lock (third-person singular simple present lip-locks, present participle lip-locking, simple past and past participle lip-locked)

1. (slang, chiefly US) To kiss for an extended period of time.
   • 2008, Jordan Cooke, Loose Lips #2:

     And I'm hardly a lesbian assistant! I mean, I am an assistant, and I do like Ellen DeGeneres's talk show, and sometimes I watch The L Word, but that doesn't mean I want to lip-lock the ladies.

   • 2009, Leonard Sweet, So Beautiful: Divine Design for Life and the Church:

     In Psalm 85, it says that "justice and peace/ mercy and truth" have kissed. In Jesus they lip-locked forever.

   • 2010, Wes E. Samuels, Amy's Dreams, page 52:

     Michelle and Evan begin to lip-lock, and Amy tries not to watch.

2. (fishing) To hook a fish by inserting a curled finger under the gill cover and extending it to the fish's jaw.
   • 1992, Michigan Out-of-doors - Volume 46, page 40:

     Never try to lip-lock a brawling bigmouth after dark.

   • 2007, Field and Stream - Volume 112, page 70:

     If any professional angler can tell you the best way to lip-lock a lunker, it's Jimmy Houston.

   • 2008, Jack Burns, Rob Kimm, Pro Tactics^TM: Muskie, page 52:

     To lip-lock a fish, curl your index and middle finger, then gently slide those two fingers under the gill cover and forward toward the fish's nose, applying slight outward pressure with your fingertips until your fingers stop just under the fish's jaw.

Anagrams

• Pollick, pillock