Definition of "bee-stung" []

• Full and sensuous. Used of lips. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "If you knew anything about makeup and faces, you would know you don’t have what we call bee-stung lips, so you should stay away from dark, matte shades."
• "When, at midnight, you heard Klaus Nomi, with his bee-stung black lips and robot hair, channeling Maria Callas at the Mudd Club, you knew you were in the presence of a genius deviant whose very life was a political act."
• "Current I.D. methods that take a "holistic" approach can be thrown off by face-lifts, Botox and bee-stung lips."