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finger-pops

finger-pops is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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-pops

What is finger-pops the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Finger-pops is the third-person singular simple present indicative of finger-pop.

Words near finger-pops in the dictionary

  1. finger-popped
  2. finger-popper
  3. finger-poppers
  4. finger-popping
  5. finger-poppings
  6. finger-pops
  7. finger-post
  8. finger-posts
  9. finger-print
  10. finger-prints
  11. finger-reading

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Adapted from Wiktionary: finger-pops (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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