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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 flesh
  9. one foot
  10. one foot in the grave
  11. one foot out the door

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