Flick

//flɪk//

Synonyms for "flick" (258 found)

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Closest matches (52)

movie fillip film flicker flip jerk picture snap 3-d animated cartoon beak beat bicker birthmark black-and-white film blaze blemish bloodstain blot blotch

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blur bob brand breath brush bump bunt caress cartoon caste mark check checkmark chiller chink chuck cicatrix cine cinema cinemascope cinerama click clink clop clump clunk color film come in contact contact creepie crump cut

Verb(1 words)

click

Strong matches (77)

Related words (129)

mottle moving picture nevus newsreel nick notch nudie pad palm palpate palpitate pat patch patter paw peck photodrama photoplay pick picture show

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Noun(7 words)

movie moving picture moving-picture show pic picture picture show the picture

Verb(5 words)

riff riffle ruffle snap thumb

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

9 relation types

More general

27 entries

beam blink brush contact displace flash force impinging loft move peruse product production pull push remove

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Synonyms

8 entries

fillip film flicker flip jerk movie picture snap

Related terms

1 entries

flicker

derived

25 entries

Ardiles flick Netflix chick flick flick book flick in flick knife flick off flick one's bean flick over flick the bean flick through flick-on flick-screen flickable flicky frat flick

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etymologically related_to

1 entries

flicker

has context

2 entries

fencing tennis

is a

2 entries

contact stroke

manner of

4 entries

brush move peruse remove

related to

17 entries

blade brush cinema cut felicity flicker flip flitch foible motion picture movement movie theater shot sweep underarm volley

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Translations

62 translations across 20 languages.

Bulgarian

3 entries

лек удар noun (a short, quick movement)
перване noun (a short, quick movement)
первам verb (to move (something) with a short, quick motion)

Dutch

1 entries

vingerknip noun (act of striking with a finger)

Finnish

4 entries

flikki noun (a cut that lands with the point (fencing))
näpäys noun (a short, quick movement)
näpäys noun (act of striking with a finger)
pisto noun (a cut that lands with the point (fencing))

French

3 entries

chiquenaude noun (act of striking with a finger)
pichenette noun (act of striking with a finger)
défiler verb (to move (something) with a short, quick motion)

Galician

1 entries

sacudir verb (to move (something) with a short, quick motion)

German

1 entries

schnipsen noun (act of striking with a finger)

Hungarian

3 entries

fricskáz verb (to move (something) with a short, quick motion)
pöccint verb (to move (something) with a short, quick motion)
pöcköl verb (to move (something) with a short, quick motion)

Ingrian

2 entries

šolkka noun (act of striking with a finger)
šolkkuna noun (act of striking with a finger)

Italian

1 entries

buffetto noun (act of striking with a finger)

Japanese

1 entries

弾く verb (to move (something) with a short, quick motion)

Latin

1 entries

talitrum noun (act of striking with a finger)

Macedonian

4 entries

за́мав noun (a short, quick movement)
перну́вање noun (a short, quick movement)
за́мавне verb (to move (something) with a short, quick motion)
при́движи verb (to move (something) with a short, quick motion)

Malay

3 entries

lenting noun (a short, quick movement)
selak noun (act of striking with a finger)
selak verb (to move (something) with a short, quick motion)

Māori

4 entries

whiunga noun (a short, quick movement)
koropana verb (to move (something) with a short, quick motion)
taiperepere verb (to move (something) with a short, quick motion)
toropana verb (to move (something) with a short, quick motion)

Persian

1 entries

تلنگر noun (a short, quick movement)

Portuguese

2 entries

piparote noun (a short, quick movement)
sacudir verb (to move (something) with a short, quick motion)

Romanian

2 entries

bobârnac noun (act of striking with a finger)
bobârnace noun (act of striking with a finger)

Russian

4 entries

движе́ние noun (a short, quick movement)
лёгкий уда́р noun (a short, quick movement)
рыво́к noun (a short, quick movement)
толчо́к noun (a short, quick movement)

Spanish

4 entries

capirotazo noun (act of striking with a finger)
chiclazo noun (act of striking with a finger)
papirotazo noun (act of striking with a finger)
tincazo noun (act of striking with a finger)

Swedish

2 entries

svep noun (a short, quick movement)
snärta verb (to move (something) with a short, quick motion)

Sample sentences

26 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

A device implanted in the spinal cord, dubbed the Orgasmotron, allows female patients to experience orgasm with the flick of a remote control.

Source: tatoeba (827284)

What's your favorite chick flick?

Source: tatoeba (906715)

Notice how the hero in an action flick never seems to run out of ammo?

Source: tatoeba (982671)

I watched a flick.

Source: tatoeba (3031101)

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