When people or animals lick something, they move their tongue across its surface.

If you lick someone or something, you easily defeat them in a fight or competition.

When flames of a large fire lick somewhere or something, the fire begins to reach that place or thing and the flames touch it lightly and briefly.

A lick of something is a small amount of it.

A lick is a short piece of music which is part of a song and is played on a guitar. A lick is also a short section in a piece of jazz, which the musician invents while they are playing.

to lick your lips