flickn.1
/flɪk/, U.S. /flɪk/ 1.
a. A light blow, esp. one given with something pliant, a whip, etc., or with the finger-nail.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > blow struck with an object or instrument > with something pliant > light
flick1447
flitch1893
1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys 85 Thy craft..is not worth a flykke.
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Cachete A flicke in the cheeke.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. v. ii. 125 If the Parson had unt had his petticuoats on, I should ha lent un a Flick . View more context for this quotation
1859 A. K. H. Boyd Recreat. Country Parson (1862) 74 I have sometimes given you an angry flick when you shied.
1886 D. C. Murray First Person Sing. xix. 146 With a dexterous flick of the towel he extinguished his own candle.
b. Any sudden movement; a jerk.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > [noun]
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quirka1616
sprunt1660
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flick1866
1866 Reader 6 Jan. 19/1 The peculiar flick of the brush in drawing the terminations of the foliage.
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling vii. 228 The slightest ‘flick’ or ‘crack’ [in throwing the line] will necessitate putting on a new fly.
c. quasi-adv. With a flick.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > [adverb]
flounce1582
startingly1693
flick1862
1862 H. Kingsley in Macmillan's Mag. July 225 The line came ‘flick’ home across his face.
d. Cricket. A quick turn of the batter's or bowler's wrist in playing or delivering the ball; also, a turn of the ball. Hockey. A stroke played with such an action; so flick shot, flick stroke.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > types of stroke
long ball1744
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cut1833
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bum1845
leg sweep1846
slog1846
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driver1851
Harrow drive1851
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poke1853
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snorter1859
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bump ball1864
rocketer1864
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Harrow drive1877
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pull-drive1905
slash1906
placing stroke1907
push drive1912
block shot1915
if-shot1920
placing shot1921
cow-shot1922
mow1925
Chinese cut1937
haymaker1954
hoick1954
perhapser1954
air shot1956
steepler1959
mishook1961
swish1963
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > manner of bowling > specific
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flick1897
whip1903
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spin-bowling1955
seam-bowling1956
pace bowling1958
nip1963
wrist-spinning1963
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > hockey > [noun] > types of stroke
centre1898
flick1957
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push-back1982
1897 K. S. Ranjitsinhji Jubilee Bk. Cricket iii. 75 There is a certain amount of ‘flick’ from the fingers, but this is quite different from the twist of the slow bowler.
1897 K. S. Ranjitsinhji Jubilee Bk. Cricket iii. 92 Spin imparted by wrist ‘flick’.
1903 D. L. A. Jephson in H. G. Hutchinson Cricket iv. 91 The varying ‘flicks’ or ‘whips’ of the wrist.
1903 D. L. A. Jephson in H. G. Hutchinson Cricket iv. 112 Two or three long loose strides, two at a trot, and an arm swinging round like a flail, a good length, great pace, and on any wicket at times a considerable flick back from the off.
1957 Encycl. Brit. XI. at Hockey ( (caption) , facing p. 616) Start of flick stroke.
1959 Times 6 Mar. 16/2 Hodgetts..placed his flick poorly.
1962 Times 10 Dec. 4/6 A flick shot.
e. A film; also in plural, the cinema. colloquial. (Cf. flicker n.3 3.)
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > [noun] > films or the cinema
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celluloid1922
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > [noun]
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pic1913
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1926 E. Wallace Square Emerald xv We'll occupy the afternoon with a ‘flick’. I love the movies—especially the romantic ones.
1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 113 We all know the word movies, but still use pictures or cinema [si'nima] in preference to the American term... Mr. Titley adds the slang flicks or flickers, unknown to me.
1931 Repertory (Oxford) 18 Apr. 9/1 Hand in hand with the Muse of the Theatre departs the appropriate feminine deity who presides over the ‘flicks’.
1936 Times 29 Feb. 13/4 The present flick-minded generation may see rather than read its Victorian classics.
1949 F. Swinnerton Doctor's Wife comes to Stay 112 He would take her to the theatre, the ballet, the flicks.
1959 J. Braine Vodi xviii. 215 Where shall we go this afternoon anyway? Tanbury and tea at the Raynton, then a flick?
2. The sound produced by a light blow (see sense 1a above); hence, any slight, sharp sound.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > faintness or weakness > [noun] > faint or weak sound
semi-souna1386
thread1593
understrain?1802
undernote1820
undertone1832
flick1844
undersound1847
undertune1866
whimper1895
1844 A. R. Smith Adventures Mr. Ledbury I. xix. 257 The only evidences of sound..being the creaking and straining of the wheels..or the flick of the driver's whip.
1866 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 655 The flick of her cards falling upon the table was the music she loved best to hear.
1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester Flick, the hasty snap of a greyhound when he fails to secure the hare.
3. concrete. Something thrown off with a jerk; a dash, splash. (Perhaps influenced by fleck n.1)
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1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xix. 163 The flicks of yellow that the rushlight threw on the dreary darkened ceiling.
1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Nov. 7/2 Great flicks of spray and foam as big as a man's hand.
Compounds
flick-knife n. a weapon with the blade held in the handle by a catch which can be released with a flick of the finger.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > knife or dagger > [noun] > types of
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stiletto1611
steelet1616
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jockteleg1642
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scalping-knife1759
snick-a-snee1760
manchette1762
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guard-dagger1786
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kukri1811
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parang1820
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bowie-knife1836
scalper1837
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toothpick1837
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snick-and-snee knife1843
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kinjal1863
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trench knife1898
puukko1925
panga1929
quillon dagger1950
flick-knife1957
ratchet knife1966
sai1973
ratchet1975
1957 Times 15 Nov. 13/1 Mr. Justice Streatfeild said at York Assizes yesterday: ‘What an invention of the Devil is the “flick” knife, which unhappily so often features in crimes of violence in this country, often committed by young people.’
1958 New Statesman 6 Sept. 261/2 Young thugs who have poured into the area carrying flick-knives, bicycle chains and petrol-bombs.
1967 Spectator 4 Aug. 138/3 There's only one flick knife on show; but the view of New York's educational system has seldom looked bleaker.
flick roll n. Aeronautics see quot. 1950. Also as v.
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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > aerobatics > perform aerobatics [verb (intransitive)] > specific
to loop the loop1902
loop1913
barrel roll1917
flick roll1928
society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > aerobatics > [noun] > stunt > specific
loop1900
looping1914
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renversement1918
vrille1918
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slow-rolling1923
aileron roll1924
flick roll1928
wing-over1928
lazy eight1930
bunt1932
aileron turn1942
victory roll1942
rollover1945
twinkle roll1962
rollback1978
1928 O. Stewart Aerobatics 6 In the flick roll the machine again turns over sideways but, instead of doing so gently and lazily, it does so quickly with a violent wriggle.
1928 O. Stewart Aerobatics 9 Some aeroplanes require a good deal of firm handling before they can be induced to flick roll.
1950 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) i. 9 Flick roll, a rapidly executed roll in which the autorotative tendency of the wings is aided to some extent by the rolling moment due to the use of rudder at high angles of incidence.
1956 D. Barnham One Man's Window 65 I have never seen flick rolls used in combat before.
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flickn.2
/flɪk/, U.S. /flɪk/ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun]
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stealer1508
taker?a1513
goodfellow1566
snatcher1575
lift1591
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larcin1596
Tartar1602
lime-twig1606
outparter1607
Tartarian1608
flick1610
puggard1611
gilt1620
nim1630
highwayman1652
cloyer1659
out-trader1660
Robin Goodfellow1680
birdlime1705
gyp1728
filch1775
kiddy1780
snaveller1781
larcenist1803
pincher1814
geach1821
wharf-rat1823
toucher1837
larcener1839
snammer1839
drummer1856
gun1857
forker1867
gunsmith1869
nabber1880
thiever1899
tea-leaf1903
gun moll1908
nicker1909
knocker-off1926
possum1945
scuffler1961
rip-off1969
1610 S. Rid Martin Mark-all A Flicke [printed Afflicke], a Theefe.
2. dialect and colloquial. (See quots.)
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1883 Punch 28 July 38/1 Last night, They'd a feet in these gardens, old flick.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Flick,..2. A very familiar epithet—as ‘Come on, old flick’.
1920 ‘Sapper’ Bull-dog Drummond iii. 87 All that I have, dear old flick, is yours for the asking.
1930 G. Manning-Sanders Burnt Man xiv. 168 ‘Why, hullo Ambrose, old flick!’ cried Joe.
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flickn.3
/flɪk/, U.S. /flɪk/ dialect.
The fur of a hare or rabbit, etc.; hence collective hares and rabbits. Cf. feather n. 4.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [noun] > of rabbit
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coney skinc1450
coney fur1597
coney wool1630
Angora1763
flick1812
rabbit1906
bunny1950
chinchilla1959
1812 Sporting Mag. 39 140 The black [cat] had lost a very large portion of his flick.
a1855 W. T. Spurdens Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 17 Flick, hare's or rabbit's down.
1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Fleck, hares; rabbits; ground game. ‘They killed over two hundred pheasants, but not but terr'ble little fleck.’
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flickn.4
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dialect. See fleck n.3
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
flickv.1
/flɪk/, U.S. /flɪk/ Cant.
transitive. To cut.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > cut [verb (transitive)]
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1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Flick, to cut.
?1750 Apol. Life Mr. Bampfylde-Moore Carew (ed. 2) 232 Flick me some Panam and Cassan; cut me some Bread and Cheese.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Flick the peter, cut off the cloak bag, or portmanteau.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 101 One of them..desired one of the lads ‘to hand in the black Peter, that they might flick it open’.
1837 B. Disraeli Venetia I. 150 Beruna, flick the panam [glossed Beruna, cut the bread].
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flickv.2
/flɪk/, U.S. /flɪk/ 1. transitive. To strike lightly with something flexible, as a whip.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > strike with an object > with something pliant > lightly
flank1830
flick1839
flip1861
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxiii. 215 ‘Many and many is the circuit this pony has gone,’ said Mr. Crummles, flicking him skilfully on the eyelid.
1873 ‘Ouida’ Pascarèl II. xi. 247 Pascarèl flicking his mandoline into harmony with the lazzarone song which he was humming.
1875 ‘A. R. Hope’ My Schoolboy Friends 149 Flicking each other with our towels.
1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 61 O white-throat swallow flicking The loch with long wing-tips.
2.
a. To remove (something) with a smart stroke of something flexible. Also with away.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > suddenly or quickly > (as) with a blow
strike1599
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > strike with an object > with something pliant > lightly > remove by
flick1846
1846 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) ii. 30 [He] attempted to flick a fly from the horse's haunch.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxviii. 347 He would..flick away the..particles of dust with a graceful wave of his hand.
1887 M. E. Braddon Like & Unlike I. ii. 54 Miss Deverill..was..flicking the chalkmarks off the cloth with her handkerchief.
1918 C. Sandburg Cornhuskers 50 He lived flecking lint off coat lapels.
b. To throw (off, etc.) with a jerk; to jerk.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > with a jerk
fillip1535
yark1568
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flick1816
1816 T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall iv. 37 Like so many spots of ink, flicked at random out of a pen.
1882 W. J. Cummins Catal. Fishing Tackle 10 Don't attempt to throw against the wind, as you would be sure to ‘flick’ the fly off.
c. Cricket.
(a) Of the batter: to play (the ball) with a slight turn of the wrist.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (transitive)] > hit > hit with specific stroke
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tip1816
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sweep1920
mishook1934
middle1954
square-drive1954
tickle1963
square-cut1976
slash1977
splice1982
paddle1986
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 223/2 The two wrists moving the bat with a sort of ‘flicking’ movement.
1903 P. F. Warner in H. G. Hutchinson Cricket iii. 62 Short and straight balls, if they do not get up to any height, may be flicked round on the on side by a quick turn of the wrist.
1927 M. A. Noble Those ‘Ashes’ 176 Gregory..was all at sea to Larwood, whom he flicked three times dangerously through the slips.
(b) Of the bowler: to deliver (a ball) with a flicking movement of the wrist. Also intransitive, said of the ball so delivered.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > bowl [verb (transitive)] > bowl in specific manner
twist1816
overthrow1833
to bowl over the wicket1851
overpitch1851
bump1869
york1882
to break a ball1884
flog1884
to bowl round (or formerly outside) the wicket1887
turn1898
flick1902
curl1904
spin1904
volley1909
flight1912
to give (a ball) air1920
tweak1935
move1938
overspin1940
swing1948
bounce1960
cut1960
seam1963
dolly1985
1902 D. L. A. Jephson in John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack (ed. 39) p. xc He ‘flicks’ the ball as we have all seen many a wrathful billiard player do when returning the white from a most unexpected pocket.
1903 D. L. A. Jephson in H. G. Hutchinson Cricket iv. 110 Bowling with a long bouncing run, he can make the ball flick higher and faster from the pitch than any other bowler.
1920 E. R. Wilson in P. F. Warner Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) (new ed.) ii. 102 He [sc. Simpson-Hayward, the underhand bowler] ‘flicked’ the cricket ball as if it were a billiard ball.
3. intransitive. To move with quick vibrations; (also, to flick it). Of a bird: To flutter; in quot. with out. Of a wound: To palpitate, throb. Cf. flicker v.
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the world > animals > birds > flight > [verb (intransitive)] > flap or flutter
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > with vibration
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quaver1943
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > suffer or cause type of pain [verb (intransitive)] > throb
throb1616
flick1889
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxviii. 349 As it is, we are undoubtedly flicking it to the north again.
1866 R. D. Blackmore Cradock Nowell xxxi The jar-bird flicked out from the ivy-drum.
1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) Fleck, to flutter, to throb. ‘My thumb, I knew it was getherin', it fleck'd soä.’
a1890 R. F. Burton in Life (1893) I. 90 They were flicking across the country at the rate of twelve miles an hour.
4. absolute.1880 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 79/1 So, flicking first at one hind-leg, then at another, he succeeded..in getting her to face him.1889 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Despot Broomsedge Cove xxiii. 424 He experimented with some delicate flecking touches of the bow.
a. transitive. To move or shake with a ‘flick’; to make a light stroke or movement with (a whip, etc.).
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > move in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > move lightly or briskly > make light movement with
frisk1665
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flicker1843
flick1844
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (intransitive)] > with something pliant > light
flick1844
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > strike with an object > with something pliant > lightly > make light stroke with (something pliant)
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1844 Mrs. Houstoun Texas & Gulf of Mexico II. 313 The ladies..begin flicking about their fans.
1849 A. R. Smith Pottleton Legacy xxxi. 357 The driver flicked his whip at her parasol.
1861 Fraser's Mag. Dec. 768 Our rotten old sail began to flick itself into shreds.
1877 C. Keene Let. in G. S. Layard Life & Lett. C. S. Keene (1892) ix. 251 I was afraid of flicking my line into my host's eye.
1879 G. Meredith Egoist II. xiv. 289 He stood..flicking a wet towel at Crossjay.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Prince Otto ii. xii. 203 He flicked the order on the table.
1887 A. W. Tourgée Button's Inn 124 ‘You handle that as if there were eggs in it,’ laughed the other, flecking the whip.
b. figurative. To ‘touch up’.
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1923 Challenge 2 Feb. 390/1 The parody that follows..flicks the whole super-sensitive school of novelists very neatly.
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flickv.3
/flɪk/, U.S. /flɪk/ Chiefly dialect.
1. transitive.
a. To cause the fur to fly from (a hare or rabbit); hence, to wound.
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1876 G. L. Gower Surrey Provincialisms (at cited word) ‘You flicked him pretty much’ means you shot him very hard.
1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases at Vleck ‘I vlecked a rabbut zo's I thinks the dogs 'ull ketch un.’
b. Of a dog: To seize by the fur.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > action of hounds [verb (transitive)] > seize prey
chopa1624
flick1843
1843 J. T. J. Hewlett College Life III. xxxiii. 299 They [the dogs] ran up to their hare..flicked, and eventually killed her.
2. To strip of fur. Hence, figurative. To fleece, strip.
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1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 129 ‘I fleck't him of all his marbles.’
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