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Flick   /flɪk/   Listen
Flick

noun
1.
A light sharp contact (usually with something flexible).  "He felt the flick of a whip"
2.
A short stroke.
3.
A form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.  Synonyms: film, motion-picture show, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture, picture show.  "The film was shot on location"
verb
(past & past part. flicked; pres. part. flicking)
1.
Flash intermittently.  Synonym: flicker.
2.
Look through a book or other written material.  Synonyms: flip, leaf, riff, riffle, thumb.  "She leafed through the volume"
3.
Cause to move with a flick.  Synonym: flip.
4.
Throw or toss with a quick motion.  Synonym: jerk.  "Jerk his head"
5.
Shine unsteadily.  Synonym: flicker.
6.
Twitch or flutter.  Synonyms: riffle, ruffle.
7.
Cause to make a snapping sound.  Synonyms: click, snap.
8.
Touch or hit with a light, quick blow.
9.
Remove with a flick (of the hand).



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"Flick" Quotes from Famous Books



... of her outraged pride; she gave not one thought to the mad thing she was about to do; she stayed not one instant to question the trustworthiness of the man who had so strangely shadowed her since their meeting in the bazaar; she decided in the flick of an eyelid. ...
— The Hawk of Egypt • Joan Conquest
... send me hurrying Back by the sword-blade thinness of the bridge From paradise to earth, and in the middle Flick me down sideways ...
— The Garden of Bright Waters - One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems • Translated by Edward Powys Mathers
... he, "surely you must know—" He paused to flick a speck of soot from his knee, and then continued: "Did she ...
— The Broad Highway • Jeffery Farnol
... to the blowing Rows about us—"Lo, "Strolling," they say, "over the course we go, "And here or there we lightly flick the Ball, "Turn, and the Trick ...
— The Golfer's Rubaiyat • H. W. Boynton
... mass of irritable beasts was urged forward by the white drover and his boys. It was a ticklish job, and the whips were kept quiet at first, except to flick up one or another which tried to poke out of the mob. All went well till the leading cattle came to the wing of the yard. Those iron rails frightened them. They had only seen a yard once before in their lives, and the rails of that ...
— In the Musgrave Ranges • Jim Bushman


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