lip-sync

See also: lipsync and lip sync

English

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Alternative forms

• lip-synch, lipsynch, lip sync, lipsync

Etymology

From lip sync.

Verb

lip-sync (third-person singular simple present lip-syncs, present participle lip-syncing or lip-synching, simple past and past participle lip-synced or lip-synched)

1. (music, singing, transitive) To move the lips in synchronization with sounds (generally recorded) so it appears they are the source of the sounds.

   She lip-synced to her own recording during the show because of her laryngitis.

   There was a great scandal when it was discovered the singer had been only lip-syncing.

   • 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, “Life in a Russian Prison”, in New York Times‎, retrieved 24 September 2013:

     Tolokonnikova is one of two members of the punk group Pussy Riot who are serving two-year sentences for lip-syncing and playing air guitar for 40 seconds in a peaceful protest in the largest Moscow cathedral.

Coordinate terms

• mime

Derived terms

• lip-syncer

Translations

to move lips in synchronization with sounds

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Azerbaijani: fonoqramla oxumaq, fonoqram oxumaq Chinese: Mandarin: 假唱 (zh) (jiǎchàng), 對嘴 / 对嘴 (zh) (duìzuǐ), 咪嘴 (mīzuǐ) Dutch: playbacken (nl), lippen (nl) Finnish: liikutella huuliaan, huulisynkata, laulaa playbackina French: faire du playback, chanter en playback German: lippensynchron singen Hungarian: tátog (hu) Italian: cantare in playback Japanese: 口パクする (ja) (kuchipaku suru), リップシンクする (rippushinku suru) Norwegian: leppesynkronisering Polish: śpiewać z playbacku impf Portuguese: usar playback Russian: исполня́ть под фоногра́мму impf (ispolnjátʹ pod fonográmmu) Spanish: hacer playback Swedish: mima (sv), läppsynka Ukrainian: виконува́ти під фоногра́му impf (vykonuváty pid fonohrámu) Vietnamese: hát nhép