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Lap up   Listen
verb
lap up  v. t.  
1.
To take up (drink or food) with the tongue; to drink by licking up.
2.
(fig.) To accept or enjoy enthusiatically and uncritically; as, to lap up praise.





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"Lap up" Quotes from Famous Books



... thirsty, after having played and had fun in the hot jungle sun, and he very much wanted a drink. So he rushed down to the spring, which was quite a large one, and began to lap up the water, just as your dog or cat drinks ...
— Nero, the Circus Lion - His Many Adventures • Richard Barnum
... Aleck," cried Tom, "and I warrant she won't leak a spoonful. There's the tide just beginning to lap up round the stern, so we'll get the rudder on again, step the mast, and put all ship-shape ready for a start, and if it's all the same to you I'll just light up my pipe at once, and smoke it as we get the tackle back ...
— The Lost Middy - Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap • George Manville Fenn


Words linked to "Lap up" :   lick, drink, lap


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