(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Your ~s are the two outer parts of the edge of your mouth.
Wade stuck the cigarette between his ~s.
N-COUNT: usu pl, oft poss N
2.
The ~ of something such as a container or a high area of land is its edge.
...the ~ of the jug.
...the ~ of Mount Etna’s smouldering crater.
= rim
N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft N of n
3.
If you lick your ~s, you move your tongue across your ~s as you think about or taste something pleasant.
They licked their ~s in anticipation...
We swallowed the chocolates in one gulp, licking our ~s.
PHRASE: V inflects