lipo
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlai.poʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
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.
Verb
lipo (third-person singular simple present lipos, present participle lipoing, simple past and past participle lipoed)
- (informal) Clipping of liposuction.
- 2011, Karen Hanson Stuyck, Do You Remember Me Now?:
- The doctor seemed to be saying that going into shock was a post-operative complication probably due to lipoing off too much fat — which he implied was my fault because I nagged him to take off the maximum amount.
See also
Anagrams
Esperanto
Etymology
From English lip, German Lippe, Yiddish ליפּ (lip).
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/
Noun
lipo
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”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈli.pɔ/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ipɔ
- Syllabification: li‧po
Noun
lipo f
- vocative singular of lipa
Portuguese
Noun
lipo f (plural lipos)
- clipping of lipoaspiração
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
Adverb
lipo (Cyrillic spelling липо)
Spanish
Etymology
Clipping of liposucción.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlipo/ [ˈli.po]
- Rhymes: -ipo
- Syllabification: li‧po
Noun
lipo m (plural lipos)
- (informal) lipo (liposuction)