"What a curious kind of a fool a girl is! Never beenlicked in school! Shucks! What's a licking! That's just like a girl -- they're so thin-skinned and chicken-hearted.[…]"
1957 December 30, Ren Grevatt, “Concensus Tabs Stereo Disk Still in Research Stage: Diskery and Phono Toppers Sound Tempering Notes of Caution”, inBillboard, page11:
This week, diskery and phono manufacturer spokesmen sounded tempering notes of caution as they discussed the many problems still to belicked in developing truly compatible stereo with fidelity standards equal to those now available in monaural disks.
Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that wentlicking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
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Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Why don't I call Jean-Michel at Il Portofino? We'll get a table outside? Ooh, I'm not getting alick of service. Babe, can I hop on your landline?
1984, Mel Tillis, Walter Wager,Stutterin' Boy, page170:
Well, my album did well, but "Ruby" was a timely song and that wasn't the time for it to step out.[…] Then Waylon Jennings took alick at it on an album, and my old buddy Roger Miller covered it, too, in his album. And although they're outstanding artists, nothing much happened with the song.
There are some really good blueslicks in this solo.
(informal) A rate ofspeed.(Always qualified bygood,fair, or a similar adjective.)
The bus was travelling at a goodlick when it swerved and left the road.
1852, John Denison Vose,Fresh Leaves from the Diary of a Broadway Dandy, page109:
Dandy Marx, a perfect gentleman in the true sense of the word, now drives forth under single harness ; whereas “once upon a time,” he rushed over the ground at a “biglick,” reigning his four beautiful roans, and continually kicking up an extra excitement among the “fashionables.”
An instance or opportunity to earn money fast, usually by illegal means, thus aheist,drug deal etc. or its victim;mostlyused in phrasal verbs:hit a lick, hit licks
2018 July 27, “Strip Talk”, Marty Mula (lyrics)[3],1:52:
Bitch, pig, pull out with the stick / everything I hit like alick / We don’t miss
2019 January 31, Lil Darkie (prod. Wendigo), “rap music” (1:55 from the start):
You see alick and you rob him / I see alick then I stop on the block and I pause him
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page54 & 108
