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Lip sync

Meaning in social media & content creation, with examples

nounCommon term

In social media & content creation, lip sync means: The matching of mouth movements to prerecorded speech or singing, often as a performance.

In Turkish: dudak senkronu

How it is used

Creators perform a lip sync to an audio clip; the visible performer need not be the original recorded speaker.

Example sentences

  1. Her lip sync matched the dialogue from the comedy clip.

    The mouth movements follow an existing recording.

  2. We repeated the lip sync because the final word was late.

    The performance is adjusted to improve timing.

Common collocations

  • perform a lip sync
  • lip sync video
  • trending audioA song, sound clip or voice recording that many people are using in their short videos at the same time.
  • reelA short, usually vertical video with music, effects or text, made to be watched quickly and often recommended to people who do not follow you.

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