Flick meaning
The definition of a flick is a light, quick touch or splash, or an informal name for a movie.
An example of a flick is the snap of a whip.
An example of a flick is Oliver and Company.
noun
To flick is defined as to strike with a quick snap.
An example of to flick is to lightly tap a light switch and turn the light on.
verb
A light splash, dash, or daub.
noun
To touch or hit with a light quick blow or fillip.
Flicked him with his hand.
verb
To cause to move with a sudden movement or jerk.
The guard flicked the light switch. The bird flicked its tail.
verb
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To propel or remove with a sudden movement, fillip, or light blow.
Flicked the lint off the coat.
verb
To move in sudden or jerky manner.
A horse's mane flicking in the wind.
verb
To look through the parts of something by making quick movements with the fingers.
Flick through a book; flick through a crate of old records.
verb
A movie.
noun
A light, quick stroke, as with a whip; sudden, jerky movement; snap.
noun
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A light, snapping sound, as of the flick of a whip.
noun
A fleck; splotch; streak.
noun
To strike, propel, remove, etc. with a light, quick, snapping stroke, as with the fingernail.
verb
To make a light, quick, snapping stroke with (a whip, etc.)
verb
To move quickly and jerkily; flutter.
verb
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(informal) A motion picture; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema.
My all-time favorite flick is "Gone with the Wind."
Want to go to the flicks tonight?
noun
The act of pressing a place on a touch screen device.
noun
To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion.
Flick one's hair.
With a flick of the wrist.
To flick the dirt from boots.
verb
the flicks
- Films collectively.
- A showing of a film.
idiom
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
the flicks
Origin of flick
- Short for flicker
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Imitative
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition