LICKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does licked mean? 

• LICKED (adjective)
  The adjective LICKED has 1 sense:

1. having been got the better of

  Familiarity information: LICKED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LICKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having been got the better of

Context example:

I'm pretty beat up but I don't feel licked yet

Similar:

defeated (beaten or overcome; not victorious)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

He killed other dogs as easily as men killed mosquitoes. (Beauty Smith's eyes lighted up at this, and he licked his thin lips with an eager tongue).

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But Martin was not satisfied. He had not licked Cheese-Face, nor had Cheese-Face licked him. The problem had not been solved.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She went straight to the church, stole to the pot of fat, began to lick at it, and licked the top of the fat off.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

When they did feel my hands on them, they whinnied low as in joy, and licked at my hands and were quiet for a time.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He trotted slowly up to the stranger and first smelled his hands, then licked them with his tongue.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Jip nestled closer to his mistress, and lazily licked her hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When he was short of sixteen he licked the Cock of the South Downs, and he’s come on a long way since then.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You poor devil,” said John Thornton, and Buck licked his hand.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The wind fanned the fire, and the cottage was quickly enveloped by the flames, which clung to it and licked it with their forked and destroying tongues.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

There is indeed another custom, which I cannot altogether approve of: when the king has a mind to put any of his nobles to death in a gentle indulgent manner, he commands the floor to be strewed with a certain brown powder of a deadly composition, which being licked up, infallibly kills him in twenty-four hours.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)