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LOVE BITE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does love bite mean?
• LOVE BITE (noun)
The noun LOVE BITE has 1 sense:
1. a temporary red mark on a person's skin resulting from kissing or sucking by their lover
Familiarity information: LOVE BITE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A temporary red mark on a person's skin resulting from kissing or sucking by their lover
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
hickey; love bite
Hypernyms ("love bite" is a kind of...):
erythema (abnormal redness of the skin resulting from dilation of blood vessels (as in sunburn or inflammation))
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