flick v.1
(UK Und.)1. to cut.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Compleat Gamester 134: When they intend to bleed a Col to some purpose [...] they always fix half a score Packs of Cards before [...] by flicking them or spurring them. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Canting Academy (2nd edn). | |
| Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Flicking, c. to cut [...] Flick the Peeter, cut off the Cloak-bag or Port-manteau. | |
| Lives of Most Notorious Highway-men, etc. (1926) 205: [...] Flick me some panam and cash, i.e., cut me some bread and cheese. | |
| New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
| , , , | | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. |
| Life and Adventures. | |
| , , | | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Commercial Advertiser (N.Y.) 1 Feb. 2/3: After roystering at the Theatre, they broomed to a neighboring bousing ken [...] one told the landlord to flick him some panea and cassan. | |
| ‘The Slap-Up Cracksman’ in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 43: So flick the suck — or draw the clicks, / The lil, the jam, or bung from kicks. | |
| Venetia I 150: Beruna, flick the panam. | |
| Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open. | |
| Vocabulum 33: flicking cutting. ‘Flick me some panam and caffar,’ cut me some bread and cheese. ‘Flick the Peter and rake the swag, for I want to pad my beaters,’ cut the portmanteau and divide the plunder, I want to walk my boots (to be off). |
2. to cut off.
| , , | | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Flick the peter; cut off the cloak-bag, or portmanteau. |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
3. as euph for fuck v.
| ‘The Matelot and the Piece of Cake‘ in Penguin New Writing 39 53: Flick it all, chum [...] if you didn’t want the chance there’s lots as do. | |
| ‘The Matelot and the Piece of Cake‘ in Penguin New Writing 39 56: I told him to flick off. | |
| ‘The Matelot and the Piece of Cake‘ in Penguin New Writing 39 57: Sub hunting [...] Flicking dull game that must be. |
4. (Aus. prison) to pass an illicit note between prisoners.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Canberra Times (ACT) 28 Oct. 40/1: Strapper Barry David Becker told the Big Philou jury, today that Leslie Edward Lewis had ‘flicked’ a note, to him in prison which read, ‘10 big ones to nod your head or know anyone who will, OK’. |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
see separate entries.
to stimulate the genitals with a hand (whether one’s own or that of a partner).
| Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.]. | |
| T. Rex’s Guide to Life 🌐 Okay, since people don’t want to actually say the m-word and the chicken and monkey phrases have been used to death on MTV, I thought it would be my duty to provide you with a bevy of other useful terminology that may be helpful in this area: [...] flicking the Bic. |
(N.Z.) to hurry up.
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Gun in My Hand 189: ‘Come on, boy. Flick your wick. Can’t waste it.’ He pours me another. | |
| Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 80: flick your wick Admonition to hurry up. Mid C20. |
see under bean n.1
(Aus.) of a woman, to masturbate.
| Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Flick the switch. Female masturbation. |
(UK juv.) to make the ‘V-sign’ gesture; note mis-defined as a n. in cit. 2001.
 | OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 (flick the ...) vees n. To stick your two fingers up at someone in an manner meant to be insulting. [Ibid.] (flick the ...) vick, vicky n. To stick your two fingers up at someone in an manner meant to be insulting. |
(US prison) to take a photo.
| Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Flick Up: Take a photo. |