What is the meaning of lick?

noun

• A salt deposit that animals regularly lick.
  • synonyms: salt lick
• Touching with the tongue.
  • usage: "the dog's laps were warm and wet"
  • synonyms: lap
• Boxing) a blow with the fist. (
  • usage: "I gave him a clout on his nose"
  • synonyms: punch, clout, poke, biff, slug

verb

• Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight.
  • usage: "We licked the other team on Sunday"
  • synonyms: cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash
• Pass the tongue over.
  • usage: "the dog licked her hand"
  • synonyms: lap
• Find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of.
  • usage: "did you solve the problem"; "Work out your problems with the boss"; "this unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out"; "did you get it"; "Did you get my meaning"; "He could not work the math problem"
  • synonyms: solve, work out, figure out, puzzle out, work
• Take up with the tongue.
  • usage: "The cat lapped up the milk"; "the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast"
  • synonyms: lap, lap up