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blicker

blicker verb: to flicker, to shine or reflect light intermittently.

Verb

blicker (third-person singular simple present blickers, present participle blickering, simple past and past participle blickered)

  1. To flicker, to shine or reflect light intermittently.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:blicker.
    • […] he did not see the lights flicker or blicker upon the approach of a train; that they were out of order. […] At the time of the accident, at about 7:30 P. M., he was within close proximity to the accident, and did not see the blickering or flickering of the lights and did not hear any blasts or..., Supreme Court Papers on Appeal, Supreme Court (New York), Affidavit of Samuel Schindler, in a matter of Hammersmith, Schindler et al. vs. New York, Onario & Western Railway Company, regarding...

Noun

blicker (plural blickers)

  1. (slang, African-American Vernacular) A handgun.
    • War zone, I'm on my way to school, got my blicker tucked2020 May 15, “No Matter What” (0:19 from the start), in The Goat, performed by Polo G

Forms of blicker

Verb
third-person singular presentblickers
present participleblickering
past participleblickered
pastblickered
Noun
pluralblickers

Origin of blicker

From dialectal *blick (Middle English bliken) + -er (frequentative), undoubtedly influenced by flicker.

From clicker, with the initial "C" replaced with "B" in Blood slang.

Questions about blicker

What does blicker mean?
Blicker means to flicker, to shine or reflect light intermittently.
What part of speech is blicker?
Blicker can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of blicker?
The past tense of blicker is blickered.

Words near blicker in the dictionary

  1. blick
  2. blicked
  3. blicked up
  4. Blickenstaff
  5. Blickenstaffs
  6. blicker
  7. blickered
  8. blickering
  9. blickers
  10. blicket
  11. blickets

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