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one-fingered salute

one-fingered salute is the alternative form of one-finger salute.

Meaning of one-finger salute

Noun

one-finger salute (plural one-finger salutes)

  1. The obscene gesture made by holding only the middle finger of a hand erect while the rest of the fingers are in a fist.
    • The troops […] gave them back the old one-finger salute of the clenched fist jabbing the stiff middle finger into the air.1951, James Jones, From Here to Eternity, Scribner(1951), page 761; also Delta (1998), page 754

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Forms of one-fingered salute

pluralone-fingered salutes

Questions about one-fingered salute

What is one-fingered salute the alternative form of?
One-fingered salute is the alternative form of one-finger salute.

Words near one-fingered salute in the dictionary

  1. one-fifth
  2. one-finger salute
  3. one-finger saluted
  4. one-finger salutes
  5. one-finger saluting
  6. one-fingered salute
  7. one-fingered salutes
  8. one-flowered wintergreen
  9. one-footed
  10. one-for-one
  11. one-form

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