lick up

verb

lick up

verb
1

To consume something by first licking it from a surface.

  • There was likewise a homeless dog, with his tail between his legs, licking up the crumbs and gnawing the fragments of the feast1854, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Christmas Banquet:
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