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What does lip mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word lip? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (countable) Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth.
  2. (by extension, countable) The projecting rim of an open container; a short open spout.
  3. (slang, uncountable) Backtalk; verbal impertinence.
  4. The edge of a high spot of land.
  5. The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
  6. (botany) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
  7. (botany) The distinctive petal of the Orchis family.
  8. (zoology) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.
  9. (music) Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips.
Verb
  1. To touch with the lips; to kiss or lick; to lap the lips against something.
  2. To utter verbally.
  3. To simulate speech merely by lip-movement, as suffices for a lip-reader.
  4. (sports) to make a golf ball hit the lip of the cup, without dropping in.
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