lip-syncv.
/ˈlɪpsɪŋk/, U.S. /ˈlɪpˌsɪŋk/ transitive. To match the action on (a film or video) with an audio soundtrack featuring recorded voices; to mouth or mime the words of (a song, a piece of dialogue, etc.) along with an accompanying soundtrack or other recording such that the two are exactly matched; esp. to perform (a song) in this way, typically in a performance that is otherwise live. Also intransitive.
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lip-sync1953
1953 Beckley (W. Va.) Post-Herald 6 July 2/6 It takes anywhere from 10 days to two weeks to lip-synch a film in New York, with most of the actors picked from radio or the stage.
1956 Billboard 10 Nov. 62/1 When record artists guest on these shows they sometimes lip-sync to their own records.
1970 M. Tormé Other Side of Rainbow (1971) iii. 50 A decision was made to prerecord one of Judy's songs, which she would lip-sync on the show.
1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 9 Jan. The actors come back to the studio and lip-synch all their dialogue over again.
1992 S. Hoffos et al. CD-I Designers Guide vi. 156 Lip-synching the audio and video for a talking head, for example, is a challenge in audio-visual media of all kinds.
2016 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 6 Feb. His live rendition of the song on Top Of The Pops—on which he refused to lip-synch—remains one of my most vivid memories from the then-unmissable Thursday tea-time show.
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ˈlip-syncer n.
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1959 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 29 Sept. 21/1 [He] isn't a very good singer but is one of the most adept lip-synchers in the business.
2021 Scotsman (Nexis) 23 Mar. I started drag in Scotland and I was never the best dancer or the best lip-syncer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022).
lip-syncn.
/ˈlɪpsɪŋk/, U.S. /ˈlɪpˌsɪŋk/ In television and film: the synchronization of recorded sound with the associated footage of a performer’s lip movements while singing or speaking, such that the two are exactly matched. Also: (an instance of) the action of mouthing or miming the words to the recording of a song, esp. in a performance that is otherwise live.Recorded earliest as a modifier.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [noun] > systems of
phonography1861
wire recording1933
stereophony1950
half-track1956
stereo1956
stereophonics1958
lip-synchronization1959
mono1959
monophony1959
pretaping1959
over-recording1961
Dolby1966
quadraphonics1968
quadraphony1969
surround sound1969
periphony1970
quad1971
multitrack1972
quadraphonic1972
quadro1972
pseudoquadraphony1975
multitracking1977
vertical recording1982
bitstream1989
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > [noun] > exact matching of sound and picture > of music and action or words
Mickey-Mousing1954
lip-synchronization1959
1942 Amer. Cinematographer Aug. 361/2 Also shown was ‘Spike Becomes a Scout’, a 45-minute Kodachrome sound-on-disc film with lip-sync dialog.
1947 Variety 22 Oct. 12/5 Occasionally, when Chevalier is turned back to the camera, so that no lip sync is necessary, he's made to speak his lines in English instead of French.
1986 J. Berry et al. Up from Cradle of Jazz 36 In each picture, he performed a lip-sync of his latest recording, but did not play a dramatic role.
2004 Gramophone Aug. 78/1 The soundtrack had obviously been pre-recorded; although the singers do their best, the miming and lip-sync isn't always perfect.
2019 Cessnock (New S. Wales) Advertiser (Nexis) 13 Mar. There's not a lip-synch in sight as these Glamazons perform live the songs that have burned up many a dance floor.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022).
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lip-sync
lip-sync n. (also lip-synch) lip-synchronization n.
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1972 Cinema Rising Aug. 2/2 A feature-length Western, and a lip-synch musical.
lip-sync
lip-sync v. (intransitive)
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1961 A. Berkman Singers' Gloss. Show Business Jargon 55 Lip sync, to move the lips in synchronization with a recorded sound; to pantomime with a recording.
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