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Lip Service

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What does Lip Service mean?

noun

  1. Promising but empty talk; words without action or intention.
More meanings (1)

noun

  1. (slang, vulgar) Cunnilingus (sometimes also referred to as giving lip).

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O pay not a lip service to the gods And wrong them of their dues.
SophoclesPlays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; AntigoneTranslated by Francis StorrProject Gutenberg ebook #31
Lip service is the only service in innumerable cases, and even lip service grows fainter.
Arthur Conan DoyleThe Vital MessageProject Gutenberg ebook #439