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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To move the lips in synchronization with recorded speech or song.
  • intransitive verb To move the lips in synchronization with (recorded speech or song).

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  • verb Alternative spelling of lip-sync.

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  • verb move the lips in synchronization (with recorded speech or song)

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Examples

  • 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.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • He tears each movie apart, he does not care much about authenticity, lip-synch, and digital mishaps.

    Anne Couillaud: Remaking Kubrick and Fassbinder: Artist Brice Dellsperger Reveals New Opus of His 28 Parts Oeuvre Anne Couillaud 2011

  • Frank, obsessed with Roy Orbison’s “candy colored clown,” compels Ben to lip-synch to In Dreams using a fluorescent light as a microphone.

    Tribeca Film: The Reelist: Frightful Noise Tribeca Film 2012

  • JG: During your final lip-synch you gave a lot of face and body while your opponent Jiggly Caliente busted out the dance moves.

    John Gascot: RuPaul's Drag Race 4: Alisa Summers John Gascot 2012

  • 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?

    Tribeca Film: The Reelist: Frightful Noise Tribeca Film 2012

  • 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?

    Tribeca Film: The Reelist: Frightful Noise Tribeca Film 2012

  • 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.

    Asia Fantasias and Other Tales Steve Dollar 2011

  • Claire watched Con lip-synch the words, I am the passenger.

    So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011

  • 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.

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  • Frank, obsessed with Roy Orbison’s “candy colored clown,” compels Ben to lip-synch to In Dreams using a fluorescent light as a microphone.

    Tribeca Film: The Reelist: Frightful Noise Tribeca Film 2012

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