Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A movie.
- noun A light quick blow, jerk, or touch.
- noun The sound accompanying this motion.
- noun A light splash, dash, or daub.
- intransitive verb To touch or hit with a light quick blow or fillip.
- intransitive verb To cause to move with a sudden movement or jerk.
- intransitive verb To propel or remove with a sudden movement, fillip, or light blow.
- intransitive verb To move in sudden or jerky manner.
- intransitive verb To look through the parts of something by making quick movements with the fingers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A light sudden stroke, as with a whip or the finger; a flip.
- To strike lightly with a quick jerk, as with a whip or the finger; flip: as, to
flick off a fly from a horse. - noun A dialectal form of
flitch . - noun In cricket, a quick turn of the bowler's wrist or forearm at the moment of delivering the ball.
- In cricket: To move the wrist or forearm quickly at the moment of delivering the ball: said of the bowler.
- To rise quickly from the pitch; bump: said of the ball.
- To flutter; flit, as a bird.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A flitch.
- transitive verb To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap
- transitive verb To throw, snap, or toss with a jerk; to flirt.
- noun A light quick stroke or blow, esp. with something pliant; a flirt; also, the sound made by such a blow.
- noun colloq. A motion picture.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A short, quick
movement , especially abrush ,sweep , orflip . - noun informal A
motion picture ; (in plural, usually preceded by "the")movie theater ,cinema . - noun fencing A
cut that lands with the point, often involving awhip of thefoible of theblade to strike at a concealed target. - noun tennis A powerful
underarm volley shot . - noun The act of pressing a place on a touch screen device.
- noun A
flitch . - verb To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb shine unsteadily
- verb flash intermittently
- noun a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
- verb cause to move with a flick
- verb remove with a flick (of the hand)
- noun a short stroke
- verb twitch or flutter
- verb throw or toss with a quick motion
- noun a light sharp contact (usually with something flexible)
- verb look through a book or other written material
- verb cause to make a snapping sound
- verb touch or hit with a light, quick blow
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Radar, on the other hand, insists the skin flick is no laughing matter, writing: During the first part of the tape Chelsea is fully clothed in her work uniform.
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February 17th, 2009 at 12: 52 pm get the flick is a fun place.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street, No. 9 in the series and a remake of No. 1, opens Friday, but this version of the iconic slasher flick is the first not to involve either slash-maestro Wes Craven as director or Robert Englund as Krueger, the man with the melted face who stalks dreams of his victims and kills them with a razor-armed metal glove.
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After reading the synopsis for THE CLASS, a French flick about a literary teacher in an inner city school, I was left with the impression that the flick is a Bizzaro version of DANGEROUS MINDS.
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Scheduled to begin shooting in the Mexican city of Veracruz this March, the flick is about a fugitive (Gibson) caught by the Mexican authorities and thrown in jail.
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The only thing really drawing me to this flick is the score, from Mastodon.
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Based on the novel by David Ebershoff, the flick is about the first ever sex-change patient, Einar Wegener, a male Danish artist who was married to a fellow Danish artist, Gerda Wegener.
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Seems I had my facts wrong … this flick is apparently a sequel to the original story, not a remake or re-imagining.
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If the flick is a special effects golly gee movie, then it'll be a hollow shell of what it could have been ..
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Written and directed by Nic Collins under his Tootalu Films shingle, the flick is a spin-off/what-if tale that introduces new characters, diverges in a big way from the original story and introduces a Sin City-like visual style to the Watchmen world.
New Watchmen Fan Film: Fearful Symmetry | Fan Cinema Today 2008
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flick, n.
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