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Definition of Licked
1. Adjective. Having been got the better of. "I'm pretty beat up but I don't feel licked yet"
Definition of Licked
1. Verb. (past of lick) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Licked
1. lick [v] - See also: lick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Licked
Literary usage of Licked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New Malagasy-English Dictionary by James Richardson (1885)
"To have the sole of the foot licked. An old custom of expressing abject ...
Cow-licked. Applied to the hair of the head. LE'LAK' O'SY. [OSY, a goat.] Prov. ..."
2. Woodrow Wilson: His Career, His Statesmanship, and His Public Policies by Hester Eloise Hosford (1912)
"We must judge New Jersey's Governor by this standard: by the gigantic size of
the man whom he licked;—licked, not whipped, because when a man is whipped he ..."
3. Woodrow Wilson: His Career, His Statesmanship, and His Public Policies by Hester Eloise Hosford (1912)
"We must judge New Jersey's Governor by this standard: ^ by the gigantic size of
the man whom he licked;—licked, not whipped, because when a man is whipped ..."
4. Woodrow Wilson and New Jersey Made Over by Hester Eloise Hosford (1912)
"We must judge New Jersey's Governor by this standard: by the gigantic size of
the man whom he licked;—licked, not whipped, because when a man is whipped he ..."
5. History of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770: Consisting of the Narrative by Frederic Kidder, John Adams (1870)
"And further say, that my master licked me the next night for telling Mrs. Waldron
... And for fear that I should be licked again, I did deny all that I said ..."
6. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"... but licked his lips — cat-ways. Thin he threw up his head an' made the men
swear by ivry oath known to stand by him not alone in the room, ..."
7. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... licked, Jeff Davis hanged, an' all; Then come Bull Run, an' sence then I 've
ben waitin' Like boys in ..."
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