flick
IPA: fɫˈɪk
noun
- 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.
- (dated) A photo.
- A diminutive of the female given name Felicity.
- A diminutive of the female given name Felicia.
verb
- To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion.
- To pass by rapidly, so as not to be perceived clearly.
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Examples of "flick" in Sentences
- February 17th, 2009 at 12: 52 pm get the flick is a fun place.
- The only thing really drawing me to this flick is the score, from Mastodon.
- If the flick is a special effects golly gee movie, then it'll be a hollow shell of what it could have been ..
- Seems I had my facts wrong … this flick is apparently a sequel to the original story, not a remake or re-imagining.
- Radar, on the other hand, insists the skin flick is no laughing matter, writing: During the first part of the tape Chelsea is fully clothed in her work uniform.
- Scheduled to begin shooting in the Mexican city of Veracruz this March, the flick is about a fugitive (Gibson) caught by the Mexican authorities and thrown in jail.
- Based on the novel by David Ebershoff, the flick is about the first ever sex-change patient, Einar Wegener, a male Danish artist who was married to a fellow Danish artist, Gerda Wegener.
- After reading the synopsis for THE CLASS, a French flick about a literary teacher in an inner city school, I was left with the impression that the flick is a Bizzaro version of DANGEROUS MINDS.
- Written and directed by Nic Collins under his Tootalu Films shingle, the flick is a spin-off/what-if tale that introduces new characters, diverges in a big way from the original story and introduces a Sin City-like visual style to the Watchmen world.
- A Nightmare on Elm Street, No. 9 in the series and a remake of No. 1, opens Friday, but this version of the iconic slasher flick is the first not to involve either slash-maestro Wes Craven as director or Robert Englund as Krueger, the man with the melted face who stalks dreams of his victims and kills them with a razor-armed metal glove.
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