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finger-popped

finger-popped is the simple past and past participle of finger-pop.

Meaning of finger-pop

Verb

finger-pop (third-person singular simple present finger-pops, present participle finger-popping, simple past and past participle finger-popped)

  1. (dated, intransitive, jazz) To click one's fingers in time to mark a beat.
    • Holding a microphone and a cigarette in one hand, he finger-popped with the other and stared at the floor as he sang "All Shook Up," "Handy Man," and "Funny How Time Slips Away."1979, Cue Publishing Company (publisher), Cue, The Weekly Magazine of New York Life, page 97

Questions about finger-popped

What is finger-popped the simple past and past participle of?
Finger-popped is the simple past and past participle of finger-pop.

Words near finger-popped in the dictionary

  1. finger-pointing
  2. finger-pointings
  3. finger-points
  4. finger-pointy
  5. finger-pop
  6. finger-popped
  7. finger-popper
  8. finger-poppers
  9. finger-popping
  10. finger-poppings
  11. finger-pops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: finger-popped (page history and authors); finger-pop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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