lip-sync
verbEtymology From lip sync.
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music To move the lips in synchronization with sounds (generally recorded) so it appears they are the source of the sounds.
- She lip-synced to her own recording during the show because of her laryngitis.
- There was a great scandal when it was discovered the singer had been only lip-syncing.
1 more example
- Tolokonnikova is one of two members of the punk group Pussy Riot who are serving two-year sentences for lip-syncing and playing air guitar for 40 seconds in a peaceful protest in the largest Moscow cathedral.2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, “Life in a Russian Prison”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 Sep 2013:
- Derived terms
- lip-syncer
- Coordinate terms
- mime