licked

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licked

/lɪkt/

Rhymes with -ɪkt

adjective more licked · most licked

Having been the target of a lick; touched by a tongue. But the mineral-rich blood is what gives the stew its ballast and faintly metallic hint of a licked knife.
slang Utterly beaten. 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.
Similar: conquered, overcome, vanquished, foiled, beaten, bested, broken, confounded, defeated, licked, overpowered, pwned

verb

participle, past simple past and past participle of lick

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Closest in meaning: defeated, beaten, caught, fought, jammed, pinned, sandwiched, squeezed, stranded, stuck, trapped, wedged, trounced, drubbed, whipped, thrashed

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@misc{licked_2026,
  title = {licked},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/licked},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}