Lick may refer to:
- Licking, passing the tongue over a surface
- Lick (stream), a small or ephemeral stream
- Lick (music), a short phrase, or series of notes, often improvised by a musician
- Lick (album), by The Lemonheads
- "Lick" (song), by Joi
- Lick (band), an American band, fl. 1990s
- Salt lick, a salt deposit that animals regularly lick
- Lick's Homeburgers, a Canadian restaurant chain
In things named after James Lick (see people, below):
- Lick (crater), a crater on the Moon
- 1951 Lick, an asteroid
- Lick Observatory, an astronomical observatory in California, United States
- See also All pages beginning with "James Lick"
Read more about Lick: People
Famous quotes containing the word lick:
“I know. That’s what makes us tough. Rich fellows come up and they die. Their kids ain’t no good and they die out. But we keepa comin’. We’re the people that live. They can’t wipe us out. They can’t lick us. We’ll go on forever, Pa, cause we’re the people.”
—Nunnally Johnson (1897–1977)
“Professor: War is hell, Mr. Thornhill, even if it’s just a cold one.
Roger Thornhill: If you fellows can’t lick the Vandamms of this world without asking girls like her to bed down with them, and fly away with them, and probably never come back, perhaps you ought to start learning how to lose a few cold wars.
Professor: I’m afraid we’re already doing that.”
—Ernest Lehman (b.1920)
“I like to see it lap the Miles—
And lick the Valleys up—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)