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flicking through

flicking through is the present participle and gerund of flick through.

Meaning of flick through

Verb

flick through (third-person singular simple present flicks through, present participle flicking through, simple past and past participle flicked through)

  1. (transitive) To browse rapidly.
    • I was flicking through the newspaper when I glimpsed a funny headline.
    Synonyms:
    riffle

Questions about flicking through

What is flicking through the present participle and gerund of?
Flicking through is the present participle and gerund of flick through.

Words near flicking through in the dictionary

  1. flicking
  2. flicking off
  3. flicking one's bean
  4. flicking over
  5. flicking the bean
  6. flicking through
  7. Flickinger
  8. Flickingers
  9. flickings
  10. Flickr
  11. Flickrer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flicking through (page history and authors); flick through (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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