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lip-synch

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See also: lipsynch

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Verb

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lip-synch (third-person singular simple present lip-synchs, present participle lip-synching, simple past and past participle lip-synched)

  1. Alternative spelling of lip-sync.
    • 1998 April 7, Neil Strauss, “Robert Pilatus, 32, Performer In Disgraced Band Milli Vanilli”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      Impressed by their looks and their dancing, but not their singing, Mr. Farian called them Milli Vanilli and recorded an album of lightweight, preening dance-pop under their name, using uncredited studio musicians. The pair simply lip-synched in performances.
    • 2013 September 10, Anne T Donahue, “The Newsroom: a new season of hatewatching”, in The Guardian[2]:
      Well, the 1990s are our problem. In the West Wing we saw CJ [Cregg] lip-synch to Ronny Jordan's The Jackal and President [Jed] Bartlet light a cigarette in a church, but if you're going to make a show about news in the 2010s, you need to reflect the time.