flick
/flɪk/
flick noun: a short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.
Noun
flick (plural flicks)
- A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.
- He removed the speck of dust with a flick of his finger.
- She gave a disdainful flick of her hair and marched out of the room.
- Synonyms:
- fillip
- A motion picture, movie, film; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema.
- My all-time favorite flick is "Gone with the Wind."
- Want to go to the flicks tonight?
- Synonyms:
- the picture
- A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target.
- A powerful underarm volley shot.
- The fourth seed was dominating her 20-year-old opponent with a series of stinging groundstrokes and athletic drive-volleys, striking again in game five when Paszek flicked a forehand pick-up into the tramlines.2011 June 28, David Ornstein, “Wimbledon 2011: Victoria Azarenka beats Tamira Paszek in quarters”, in BBC Sport
- The act of pressing a place on a touch screen device.
- A flitch.
- a flick of bacon
- A unit of time, equal to 1/705,600,000 of a second.
- A chap or fellow; sometimes as a friendly term of address.
- 'All that I have, dear old flick, is yours for the asking. What can I do?'1920, H. C. McNeile, Bulldog Drummond
- A photo.
- I was taking some flicks of the [p]arade […] and [someone] asked […] if I would like to take a picture of him[.]1968 April 29, William Gilson, “Loyalty Day”, in Berkley Barb
Verb
flick (third-person singular simple present flicks, present participle flicking, simple past and past participle flicked)
- To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion.
- flick one's hair
- to flick the dirt from boots
- To pass by rapidly, so as not to be perceived clearly.
- Near-synonym: flit
- They were quiet for a time, watching the fields and lanes flick past.1997, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- Synonyms:
- flit
Proper noun capitalized: Flick
Flick
- A diminutive of the female given name Felicity.
- A diminutive of the female given name Felicia.
- Felicia Jane "Flick" Beatrix Drummond is a British Conservative Party politician.
flick meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
flick in Hindi
- फ्लिक, फ़्लिक, फ्लिक करें
flick in Tamil
- சுண்டு, சுண்டுதல், சொடுக்கு, தெறித்தல்
flick in Marathi
- फ्लिक
flick in Bengali
- ফ্লিক
More languagesFewer languages
- flick in Telugu
- ఫ్లిక్
- flick in Malayalam
- ചാട്ടകൊണ്ടുള്ള ചെറു അടി, ഉതറൽ, ലഘുപ്രഹരം, മൃദുതാഡനം
- flick in Kannada
- ಒದರು, ಕೊಡವು, ಝಾಡಿಸು, ಕೊಡಹು
- flick in Punjabi
- ਫਲਿੱਕ, ਫ਼ਲਿੱਕ, ਫਲਿੱਕ ਕਰੋ
- flick in Gujarati
- ફ્લિક, ફ્લિક કરો, ફ્લીક
- flick in Odia
- ଫ୍ଲିକ୍, ଫ୍ଲିକ୍ କରନ୍ତୁ, ଫ୍ଲିକ
- flick in Nepali
- फ्लिक, फ्लिक गर्नुहोस्, फ्लिक गर्न
- flick in Malay
- lenting, selak
- flick in Persian
- تلنگر talangor
Examples of flick in a sentence
- On this occasion it was Nolan's deft flick that fooled West Ham's sleepy defenders Danny Gabbidon and Tomkins.2011 January 5, Saj Chowdhury, “Newcastle 0 - 0 West Ham”, in BBC:
- Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth.2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times...
- the Queen, flicking the snuff off her sleeve[…]1860, William Makepeace Thackeray, The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century and Charity and Humour:
Synonyms of flick
Forms of flick
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | flicks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | flicks |
| present participle | flicking |
| past participle | flicked |
| past | flicked |
Origin of flick
From Middle English flykke (“light blow or stroke”). Later uses apparently interpreted as a back-formation from flicker. The use of flick to mean a film or movie derives from the fact that early films had a low frame rate, thus causing the film to "flick" rapidly when projected onto a screen.
Words formed from flick
- Ardiles flick
- chick flick
- flick book
- flicky
- frat flick
- frock flick
- horror flick
- kiddie flick
- lit flick
- Netflix
- penalty flick
- skin flick
- slasher flick
- flickable
- flick in
- flick knife
- flick off
- flick-on
- flick one's bean
- flick on the afterburners
- flick over
- flick-screen
- flick the bean
- flick through
- tick and flick
- unflicked
Phrases with flick
Words that rhyme with flick
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- nick
- sick
- unpick
- chick
- dick
- rick
- vic
- wick
- crick
- ick
- shtick
- snick
- squick
- stich
- strick
- unstick
- blick
- hick
- inwick
- klick
- mick
- outwick
- pic
- Roman brick
- shlick
- sic
- SLC
- spic
- thicc
- tic
- Vick
- yardstick
- cinematographic
- fic
- flic
- frick
- gick
- hard tick
- hic
- hysteric
- Laconophilic
- megalographic
- miskick
- nic
- rainstick
- restart kick
- schtik
- shift stick
Questions about flick
- What does flick mean?
- Flick means a short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.
- What is flick in Hindi?
- Flick in Hindi is फ्लिक, फ़्लिक, फ्लिक करें. See Flick meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use flick in a sentence?
- On this occasion it was Nolan's deft flick that fooled West Ham's sleepy defenders Danny Gabbidon and Tomkins.
- What part of speech is flick?
- Flick can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce flick?
- Flick is pronounced /flɪk/.
- What is the plural of flick?
- The plural of flick is flicks.
Words near flick in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: flick (page history and authors); Flick (page history and authors); flick (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); flick (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); flick (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); flick (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); flick (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); flick (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); flick (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); flick (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); flick (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); flick (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); flick (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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