flickverb [ I + adv/prep, T ]
uk/flɪk/us/flɪk/to move or hit something with a short sudden movement:
He carefully flicked the loose hairs from the shoulders of his jacket.
She quickly flicked the crumbs off the table.
Horses flick their tails to make flies go away.
Windscreen wipers flick from side to side.
The boys ran around the swimming pool, flicking each other with their towels.
The lizard flicked out its tongue at a fly.
His eyes flicked between her and the door.
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- A greenfly landed on my arm and I flicked it off.
- He flicked ash from his cigarette onto the floor.
- Every time you turn your head, your hair flicks my face.
- She flicked a switch and the whole area was lit up.
- She sat in the waiting room, flicking her fingers nervously.
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Throwing
- cast
- chuck
- fling
- heave
- hurl
- overhand
- peg
- pelt
- precipitate
- project
- projectile
- sling
- slung
- stone
- throw
- throw-in
- thrown
- toss
- underarm
- underhand
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Hitting and beating
Phrasal verb(s)
flick sth on
flick sth on/off
flick through sth
flicknoun [ C ]
uk/flɪk/us/flɪk/flick noun [ C ] (QUICK MOVEMENT)
a sudden, quick movement:
With a flick of its tail, the cat was gone.
A flick of a switch turns the machine on.
have a flick through sth
UK to quickly look at the pages of a book, magazine, etc.:
I've had a flick through their brochure and it looks quite interesting.
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Making short, sudden movements
- aquiver
- convulse
- convulsion
- convulsive
- cringe
- jerky
- jig
- jiggle
- jolt
- judder
- palpitate
- pull away
- quiver
- shrink
- squirm
- toss
- tremulous
- whip
- worry at sth
- wriggle
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Reading
flick noun [ C ] (FILM)
US informal or UK old-fashioned informal a film
See
chick flick
skin flick
the flicks [ plural ] UK old-fashioned informal
the cinema:
What's on at the flicks this week?
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Cinema - general words
- 12A
- animation
- animator
- best boy
- Bollywood
- boom
- CGI
- filming
- filmstrip
- footage
- freeze-frame
- gaffer
- pan
- shoot
- showing
- slide projector
- slow motion
- soundtrack
- storyboard
- the big screen 1
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Public entertainment venues