Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To move the lips in synchronization with recorded speech or song.
- v. To move the lips in synchronization with (recorded speech or song): She lip-synched the songs for the movie.
Wiktionary
- v. alternative spelling of lip-sync.
WordNet 3.0
- v. move the lips in synchronization (with recorded speech or song)
Examples
“Claire watched Con lip-synch the words, I am the passenger.”
“Instead, after conducting interviews with subjects, including Ms. Dunbar's three daughters and others who recount the family's dark and twisted history, Ms. Barnard hired actors to lip-synch the recorded interviews.”
“Rather than just show the interviewees as talking heads, Barnard had actors lip-synch to the soundtrack in and around The Arbor, part of a Bradford housing estate where Dunbar grew up.”
“For the pop music moment, Beef Gerrit Graham, in a fantastic lip-synch performance, the embodiment of evil, owns the stage as he sings, “Do you realize that all of you donated something horrible you hated that’s a part of you?”
The Huffington Post: Tribeca Film: The Reelist: Frightful Noise
“Frank, obsessed with Roy Orbison’s “candy colored clown,” compels Ben to lip-synch to In Dreams using a fluorescent light as a microphone.”
The Huffington Post: Tribeca Film: The Reelist: Frightful Noise
“JG: During your final lip-synch you gave a lot of face and body while your opponent Jiggly Caliente busted out the dance moves.”
The Huffington Post: John Gascot: RuPaul's Drag Race 4: Alisa Summers
“So they chip away at the very nature of the music video, revealing that they're only pretending to play their instruments and then competing to lip-synch the lead vocals.”
“He tears each movie apart, he does not care much about authenticity, lip-synch, and digital mishaps.”
“In John Hughes '1986 Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the title character memorably hijacks a parade float to lip-synch "Danke Schoen" and "Twist and Shout.”
“Levi grabbed a microphone to lip-synch along to Britney Spears' "Hold It Against Me" — just one of the many tunes spun by an on-set DJ — while Favorite Villain costar and onetime James Bond Timothy Dalton gamely pelted him with maraschino cherries and even drank champagne out of a Giuseppe Zanotti stiletto.”
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