lip smacking

Loudly enjoying food

Lip smacking describes the sound or action of pressing lips together and parting them audibly, typically in anticipation of food or to express appreciation while eating.

As an adjective, lip-smacking means delicious or highly appealing: a lip-smacking barbecue sauce, lip-smacking good.

The term can also describe any eagerly anticipated pleasure: lip-smacking gossip.

Related

yummy · food porn · chomping · licking · tasting · taste buds · hungry · appetite · drooling · relishing · satisfying · juicy · flavorful · munching · chewing · slobbering · anticipation · guilty pleasure

Categories
Opposites
eating etiquette

lip smackingproper etiquette

dining etiquette

oral sound production

lip smackingsilence

Total lack of sound

Family

lips, lipped, smack, smacks, smacked, smacking, smacker

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G