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flic
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /fl?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
- Homophone: flick
Etymology 1
From flick in the cinematographic sense.
Noun
flic (plural flics)
- (computing) A data file containing computer animations.
Etymology 2
From French flic (“cop, policeman”).
Noun
flic (plural flics)
- (informal, slang) A French policeman.
French
Etymology
From earlier flique, probably a borrowing of German Flick, German criminal slang for "young man".
Alternatively, from earlier fligue, short for earlier fligman, a borrowing of German Fliege (“policeman”, literally “fly”). More at English fly.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flik/
Noun
flic m (plural flics)
- (slang, derogatory) copper, pig, rozzer; (police officer)
Synonyms
- keuf (verlan)
Derived terms
- fliquer
- fliqueur
Further reading
- “flic” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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flick
English
Etymology
Perhaps related to flicker.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fl?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
- Homophone: flic
Noun
flick (plural flicks)
- A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.
- (informal) A motion picture, movie, film; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema.
- (fencing) A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target.
- (tennis) A powerful underarm volley shot.
- The act of pressing a place on a touch screen device.
- A flitch.
- A unit of time, equal to 1/705,600,000 of a second
- (dated, slang) A chap or fellow; sometimes as a friendly term of address.
- 1920, H. C. McNeile, Bulldog Drummond
- 'All that I have, dear old flick, is yours for the asking. What can I do?'
- 1920, H. C. McNeile, Bulldog Drummond
Synonyms
- (short, quick movement) fillip (of the finger)
- (cinema) the pictures
Descendants
- ? Afrikaans: fliek
Translations
Verb
flick (third-person singular simple present flicks, present participle flicking, simple past and past participle flicked)
- To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion.
- Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.
- 1860, William Makepeace Thackeray, The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century and Charity and Humour
- the Queen, flicking the snuff off her sleeve […]
Derived terms
- flick knife
- flick off
- flick the bean
Related terms
- flicker
Translations
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fl?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Verb
flick
- singular imperative of flicken
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- what flickers
- what flick means
- what flicker means
- what flickering lights mean
- what flickers in the night sky
- what flickr
- what flicker character are you
- what flicker role are you
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