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one finger salute

one finger 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 finger salute

Noun
pluralone finger salutes
Verb
third-person singular presentone finger salutes
present participleone finger saluting
past participleone finger saluted
pastone finger saluted

Questions about one finger salute

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

Words near one finger salute in the dictionary

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  4. one fell swoop
  5. one fifth
  6. one finger salute
  7. one finger saluted
  8. one finger salutes
  9. one finger saluting
  10. one fingered salute
  11. one fingered salutes

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