| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Flick.[Websters]
2. To be shocked or bruised. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have raped, dabbed, knocked or thwacked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be striped or rayed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have cracked or banged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have jerked, jounced, flounced or twitched. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have whipped or switched. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have stroked, dashed or jabbed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have flirted, fluttered, waged, wagged or waved. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have rattled or crashed.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb flick.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (flick) | 1. Flash intermittently; "The lights flicked on and off".[Wordnet]. 2. Look through a book or other written material.[Wordnet]. 3. Cause to move with a flick; "he flicked his Bic".[Wordnet]. 4. Throw or toss with a quick motion; "flick a piece of paper across the table".[Wordnet]. 5. Shine unsteadily; "The candle flickered".[Wordnet]. 6. Twitch or flutter; "the paper flicked".[Wordnet]. 7. Cause to make a snapping sound.[Wordnet]. 8. Touch or hit with a light, quick blow; "flicked him with his hand".[Wordnet]. 9. Remove with a flick (of the hand).[Wordnet]. 10. To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots.[Websters]. 11. Base verb from the following inflections: flicking, flicked, flicks, flicker, flickers, flickingly and flickedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FLICKED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
Specialty Definition: flick
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | Flick To strike with a quick jerk. To "flick a whip in one's face" is to strike the face with the lash and draw the whip suddenly back again. (Anglo-Saxon, fliccerian; Scotch, flicker; Danish, flikkeren, to twinkle, etc.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Slang | Verb. Source: Linguistic 101 students at the University of Oregon. Definition: A flick in Frisbee is a sidearm through. Context: This important role is used during the game between teammates. Social Source: U of O Ultimate Frisbee Players. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | ||
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Common Expressions: flick
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Donatella Flick | Countess Donatella Flick is a socialite and philanthropist, former wife of Gert Rudolph Flick of the wealthy German industrialist Flick family. (references) | ||
| Elmer Flick | Elmer Harrison Flick (January 11, 1876 - January 9, 1971) was an American player in Major League Baseball from 1898 until 1910. He was a right fielder known predominantly for his solid batting and speed. (references) | ||
| Flick Affair | The Flick Affair was a German political scandal of the early 1980s relating to political contributions by the Flick company, a major German conglomerate, to various political parties "for the cultivation of the political landscape". Otto Graf Lambsdorff, then minister for economic affairs, was forced to resign in 1984 after being accused of accepting bribes from Flick. (references) | ||
| Flick family | The Flick family are a wealthy German industrial and political dynasty, heirs to an industrial empire embracing coal, steel and the DaimlerChrysler company. (references) | ||
| Flick grinder | A flick grinder is a rough and ready surface grinder or tool and cutter grinder, its usage is varied but it may be used where great accuracy is not required, but a machine better than a bench grinder is required. (references) | ||
| Flick knife | A pocketknife with a blade that springs open at the press of a button. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Flick Shagwell | Flick Shagwell (born on March 5 1979 in London, England) is a British porn actress. She was born and raised in the Wimbledon area of London. (references) | ||
| Flick Trial | The United States of America vs. Friedrich Flick, et. al. or the Flick Trial was the fifth of twelve Nazi war crimes trials held by U.S. authorities in their occupation zone Germany (Nuremberg) after World War II. It was the first of three trials of leading industrialists of Nazi Germany; the two others were the IG Farben Trial and the Krupp Trial. (references) | ||
| Friedrich Karl Flick | Friedrich Karl Flick is a German industrialist and billionaire. (references) | ||
| Otto-Ernst Flick | Otto-Ernst Flick is the oldest of three sons born to Marie and Friedrich Flick in 1916 in Germany. He entered the Friedrich Flick Industry Holding Company in 1953, but had a fall-out with his father in about 1960. Otto-Ernst took his father to court to secure his inheritance, and after a prolonged struggle, received a payment for settlement. He retired in Duesseldorf and died 1974. His surviving brother, Friedrich Karl Flick gained full control of the business after he paid out the children of Otto-Ernst. (references) | ||
| Skin flick | A pornographic movie. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: flick
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Flick roll | Transportation | 1: A rapidly executed roll in which autorotation of the wing is used to speed up the maneuver. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| 2: Essentially a horizontal spin, made by slowing to spin-entry speed with engine throttled back and then applying hard back stick and full rudder. Source: European Union. (references) | |||
| Skin flick | Sports & Leisure | Slang. a motion picture showing people in the nude, usually engaging in some sexual act; a nudie. . . . . nudie: Slang. a motion picture or play in which actors perform in the nude. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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