- a substance made into a small stick, used for colouring the lips; a small stick of this substance
- She was wearing bright red lipstick.
Extra ExamplesTopics Appearanceb2- She put on a quick dab of lipstick and rushed out.
- Her lipstick had smudged and she looked terrible.
- She touched up her lipstick in the mirror.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary… of lipstick- dab
- have on
- wear
- apply
- …
- smear
- smudge
Idioms
See lipstick in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryput lipstick on a pig (informal, humorous)
- to make small changes to something, especially its outside appearance, to try and hide the fact that it has problems
- The change of policy doesn't go far enough—it's just putting lipstick on a pig.
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