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flick (flik)

noun

  1. a light, quick stroke, as with a whip; sudden, jerky movement; snap
  2. a light, snapping sound, as of the flick of a whip
  3. a fleck; splotch; streak

Etymology: echoic, but infl. by flicker

transitive verb

  1. to strike, propel, remove, etc. with a light, quick, snapping stroke, as with the fingernail
  2. to make a light, quick, snapping stroke with (a whip, etc.)

intransitive verb

to move quickly and jerkily; flutter
flick2 definition

flick (flik)

noun

Slang a film ()

Etymology: < flicker

flick Idioms

the flicks

Slang
  1. films collectively
  2. a showing of a film

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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