lipo
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlai.poʊ/
Noun
lipo (uncountable)
- (informal) Clipping of liposuction.
- 2005, Cap Lesesne, Confessions of a Park Avenue Plastic Surgeon:
- She complained about the lip of fat creeping over the waist of her jeans. "Maybe I'll get lipo, too, next time," she said.
- 2009, Greg Liberman, Aging with Grace:
- You're the one who told me I couldn't get lipo like I wanted, so this is the next best thing. But to do it, it has to be now. Tonight.
Anagrams
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈlipo]
- Audio:
(file) - Rhymes: -ipo
- Hyphenation: li‧po
Noun
lipo (accusative singular lipon, plural lipoj, accusative plural lipojn)
- lip (one of two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth)
- 1910, L. L. Zamenhof, Proverbaro Esperanta:
- La lipoj ne montru, kion manĝis la buŝo.
- Don't let your lips show what your mouth ate.
Derived terms
- lipangulo (“corner of the mouth”)
Hawaiian
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *lipo (compare with Tahitian riporipo, Maori ripo and riporipo (“eddy, whirlpool”))[1] from Proto-Polynesian *lepu (“agitated, rough (of water)”).[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈli.po/
Related terms
- lipolipo
References
- Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “lipo”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 208
- Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “lipo”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈli.pɔ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ipɔ
- Syllabification: li‧po
Portuguese
Serbo-Croatian
Spanish
Etymology
Clipping of liposucción.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlipo/ [ˈli.po]
- Rhymes: -ipo
- Syllabification: li‧po
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