Definition of "lippy" []

• Talking back, in a cheeky manner. (adjective)
• Lipstick (noun)
• Lip gloss (noun)

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• "Who cares whether the girl was "lippy," or that she may have referred to the officers as "fat pigs.""
• "Everyone knows that as prudent people we ordinarily should not get "lippy" with a police officer, but Professor Gates is not guilty of violating that maxim."
• "Now, although Mr. and Mr. Bjornstam are hard-working and prosperous, they are still shunned, partly because of their foreignness and low class but mostly because the agnostic Miles has been "lippy" about the greatest nation in the country and the most perfect of its Main Streets."