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    [Verb]  | "flick*er" | \ ˈfli-kər \


    1: to move irregularly or unsteadily : flutter

    2: to burn or shine fitfully or with a fluctuating light

    3: to appear or pass briefly or quickly

    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English flikeren, from Old English flicorian;

    [Noun]  | "flicker" 


    1: an act of flickering

    2: a sudden brief movement

    3: a momentary quickening

    Origin: 1822 ;

    [Noun]  | "flicker" 


    1: a large barred and spotted North American woodpecker (Colaptes auratus) with a brown back that commonly forages on the ground for ants

    Origin: 1809 ;

     Probably imitative of its call;

    [Noun]  | "flea-flick*er" | \ ˈflē-ˌfli-kər \


    1: any of various offensive plays in football involving a combination of handoffs and forward or lateral passes

    Origin: 1927 ;

    [Noun]  | "red-shaft*ed flicker" | \ ˈred-ˈshaf-təd- \


    1: a flicker of western North America with light red on the underside of the tail and wings, a gray nape with no red, and in the male red on each cheek

    Origin: 1846 ;

    [Noun]  | "yel*low-shaft*ed flicker" | \ ˈye-lō-ˌshaf-təd- \


    1: a flicker of eastern North America that is golden yellow on the underside of the tail and wings, has a red mark on the nape, and in the male has a black streak on each cheek

    Origin: 1855 ;

    [Verb]  | "flicker" 


    1: to make an irregular series of quick, sudden movements;


      * e.g., " ... a dragonfly flickering above the salt marsh "



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    [Noun]  | "flicker" 


    1: a story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track;


      * e.g., " ... as a child, the future director would spend hours sitting in the theater, totally entranced by the flickers "



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    2: a sudden and usually temporary growth of activity;


      * e.g., " ... usually there's a flicker in car sales when the new models come out "



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    3: an almost imperceptible sign of something;


      * e.g., " ... there was a flicker of recognition in her eye when I mentioned his name, but she denied knowing him "



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     [ "flicker" ]

    1: another word for a gay

      * e.g.,  ... Dude, Thats dumb your such a flicker 

     [ "flicker" ]

    1: A lighter, typically a bic or disposable gas/flint based lighter.

      * e.g.,  ... Can you pass me a flicker I am about to light this shit UP. All the gangsters throw your triggers up, all the stoners throw your flickers up, all the drunks throw your liquor up. 

     [ "flicker" ]

    1: Nubile female.

      * e.g.,  ... Cor, look at that flicker! I'm gonna get down on her bean tonight. 

     [ "flicker" ]

    2: Comes from expression flicking the bean.

     [ "flicker" ]

    1: an old movie. Comes from the way that they "flick."

      * e.g.,  ... I saw a great flicker yesterday. 

     [ "flicker" ]

    1: when you are taking such a long and jurassic shit, that as the grizzled log falls into the hole of the toitey, it is cut off and falls backward grazing one's nutbag in the process. clean up or rinsing is optional.

      * e.g.,  ... that flicker i had at work the other day makes my lifetime total a baker's dozen 

     [ "flicker" ]

    1: Television, T.V., Telly

      * e.g.,  ... Person 1: "Hey, what are you doing?" 

     [ "flicker" ]

    1: Online flirting and smooching by means of photo exchange.

      * e.g.,  ... One remotest flicker and I was smitten. 

     [ "Flicker" ]

    1: The remote control to the television, more used on the east coast

      * e.g.,  ... Hey Pass the flicker for the tv. 

     [ "Flicker" ]

    1: A turn signal. The mexicans term for a turn signal

      * e.g.,  ... Dudeing he didn't use his flicker. 

     [ "Flicker" ]

    1: Someone who 'flicks the bean'. i.e a woman who masturbates or flicks her clitoris Often an equivalent to the word "wanker"

      * e.g.,  ... woman to man: "you're such a wanker" 

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