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thumbs through

thumbs through is the third-person singular simple present indicative of thumb through.

Meaning of thumb through

Verb

thumb through (third-person singular simple present thumbs through, present participle thumbing through, simple past and past participle thumbed through)

  1. (transitive) To use one's thumb to quickly flip through the pages of a book, magazine, etc., especially without reading them thoroughly or at all.

Questions about thumbs through

What is thumbs through the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Thumbs through is the third-person singular simple present indicative of thumb through.

Words near thumbs through in the dictionary

  1. thumbs down
  2. thumbs downs
  3. thumbs on the scale
  4. thumbs on the scales
  5. thumbs one's nose
  6. thumbs through
  7. thumbs up
  8. thumbs up, seven up
  9. thumbs ups
  10. thumbs-down
  11. thumbs-downed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thumbs through (page history and authors); thumb 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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