lick up

lick up (third-person singular simple present licks up, present participle licking up, simple past and past participle licked up)

1. (transitive) To consume something by first licking it from a surface.
   • 1854, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Christmas Banquet:

     There was likewise a homeless dog, with his tail between his legs, licking up the crumbs and gnawing the fragments of the feast

• lick clean