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Licked vs Ricked - What's the difference?

licked | ricked |

As verbs the difference between licked and ricked

is that licked is past tense of lick while ricked is past tense of rick.

licked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (lick)

    • lick

    English

    (licking)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
    • The cat gave its fur a lick .
  • The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
    • Give me a lick of ice cream.
  • A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue.
    • a lick''' of paint; to put on colours with a '''lick of the brush
  • * Gray
    • a lick of court white wash
  • A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
    • The birds gathered at the clay lick .
  • A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
    • We used to play in the lick .
  • (colloquial) A stroke or blow.
    • Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer.
  • (colloquial) A bit.
    • You don't have a lick of sense.
    I didn't do a lick of work today.
  • (music) A short motif.
    • There are some really good blues licks in this solo.
  • speed. In this sense it is always qualified by good', or ' fair or a similar adjective.
    • The bus was travelling at a good lick when it swerved and left the road.

    Synonyms

    * (bit) see also .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To stroke with the tongue.
    • The cat licked its fur.
  • (colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
    • My dad can lick your dad.
  • (colloquial) To overcome.
    • I think I can lick this.
  • (vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.
  • (colloquial) To do anything partially.
  • To lap
  • * 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI
    • Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
  • To lap; to take in with the tongue.
    • A cat licks milk.
    (Shakespeare)

    Derived terms

    * ass-licker * cow lick * good lick * lick one's chops * lick one's wounds * lick out * lickspittle * lick up * licked * lickety split * outlick

    ricked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rick)

    • Anagrams

    * *

    rick

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , Icelandic (m).

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stack, stook or pile of grain, straw, hay etc., especially as protected with thatching.
  • *(George Eliot) (1819-1880)
  • *:There is a remnant still of last year's golden clusters of beehive ricks , rising at intervals beyond the hedgerows;.
  • *
  • *:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
  • (lb) A stack of wood, especially cut to a regular length; also used as a measure of wood, typically four by eight feet.
    • Derived terms
    * rickburner

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) wricke

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc.

    • Etymology 3

    Abbreviated form from recruit

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military, pejorative, and, demeaning) A brand new (naive ) boot camp inductee.
    • No turning back now rick, you are property of the US government, no longer protected by the bill of rights; you follow the UCMJ now.