salt lick

1. 1.

   a salt deposit that animals regularly lick

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Questions about salt lick

What does salt lick mean?

salt lick means "a salt deposit that animals regularly lick".

What is another word for salt lick?

Close synonyms include lick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is salt lick a common word?

salt lick is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.