L's Bells - a contest by Focus Magazine

People were asked to redefine an existing English word beginning with 'l'.

First Place:
lac: to be without something essential, such as the letter k at the end of a
     word

lintel: the fuzz stuff that clings to the inside of your disk drive

lithe: to say you give 10 percent of your income to the church when you really
       don't

Runner's Up:
leek: Fr., rodent

loggerheads: pot-smoking sawyers

lombardy: the crookedest region of Italy

Honourable Mention:
labor: an unordained wild pig

lackadaisical: to be out of flowers

lapidary: reindeer herd

laughingstock: la vache qui rit

legal: woman who doesn't want her hair blown by the wind

lepton: what the panther did to me

lesbian: women's decision not to come out of the closet

libel: Cockney luggage tag

licorice: scotch on the rocks

likelihood: usual suspect

liltingly: what I get when someone licks the inside of my arm

limulus: cloud formations resembling an arm or leg

lipstick: nervous habit of blowing people kisses

lobster: gangland tennis pro

larkspur: illegal piece of equipment at a bird rodeo

Lohengrin: what a happy cow does

lollygag: an item to quiet children

loquacious: not high on the Richter scale

Lucifer: Ricky's evil wife

lombago: smallest of the islands in the rheumatic chain off Trinidad