stick one's tongue out

• stick out one's tongue

• IPA^(key): /stɪk wʌnz tʌŋ aʊt/

stick one's tongue out (third-person singular simple present sticks one's tongue out, present participle sticking one's tongue out, simple past and past participle stuck one's tongue out)

1. To push one's tongue so that it protrudes from the mouth, especially as a gesture of rudeness.

   Synonym: pull tongues

   The class clown stuck her tongue out at her classmate.

   • 1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published January 1963, page 42:

     Leona took his glass and went to the kitchen. Rufus stuck out his tongue at Vivaldo, who was watching him with a faintly quizzical frown.