Meanings
verbpucker up (third-person singular simple present puckers up, present participle puckering up, simple past and past participle puckered up)
present singular third person puckers up · participle present puckering up · participle past puckered up · past puckered up
- ambitransitiveTo contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles; used especially of the lips when whistling or kissing.
Pucker up your lips!
2 more examples
Pucker up and gimme a kiss!
Sucker love is heaven sent / You pucker up, our passion's spent
1998, “Every You Every Me”, in Without You I’m Nothing, performed by Placebo
Translations
Bulgarian свивам устни, свия устни
- свивам устни (svivam ustni)To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles
- свия устни (svija ustni)To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles
- цупя се (cupja se)To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles
Czech špulit (ústa), našpulit
- špulit (ústa)To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles
- našpulitTo contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles
Finnish mutristaa
- mutristaaTo contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles
Polish marszczyć, zmarszczyć
- marszczyćTo contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles
- zmarszczyćTo contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles
- ściągaćTo contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles
- ściągnąćTo contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles
Russian мо́рщиться, вытя́гивать губки
- мо́рщиться (mórščitʹsja)To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles
- вытя́гивать губки (vytjágivatʹ gubki)To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles
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APA
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Chicago
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