Verb

1. To move (something) with a short, quick motion.

   flick one's hair

   With a flick of the wrist.

Translations

• Finnish: näpäyttää, pyyhkäistä

Derived terms

• flick knife
• flick off
• flick the bean

Related terms

• flicker

Flick may refer to:

• A nickname for a film (movie), so-called due to the flicker of the image
• Flick (fencing), an attack implemented with the foil in the sport of fencing
• A nickname for someone with the name Felicity (name)
• An action used in a number of games e.g. pencil flick
• Flick family, an industrial family from Germany
• Flick Shagwell, a porn actress
• An animation file format from Autodesk commonly known as an FLC file
• Flick, a character from A Christmas Story
• Herr Otto Flick, a character from the TV series 'Allo 'Allo!
• Flicks, Chocolate-Flavored Candy "Wafers" originally made by Ghirardelli Chocolate Company of San Francisco beginning in 1904 and now made by the Flicks Candy Co. of Fresno, CA.

See also:

• Flik, a character from the film A Bug's Life
• Flic, French slang term for a police officer, like "cop"
• "Flicking someone off", common slang for giving someone the finger
• Flicker (disambiguation)

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