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形容詞

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, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2023:

     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 Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic‎, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 December 2022:

     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.

   Synonyms: conquered, overcome, vanquished; see also Thesaurus:defeated

   • 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, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 December 2022:

     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.

派生語

動詞

licked

1. simple past and past participle of lick

参照

• “licked, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “licked adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

アナグラム

• Dickel, Delkic