flick

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flick/flɪk/

▶verb

• 1 make or cause to make a sudden quick movement.

• 2 propel with a quick movement of the fingers.

• 3 (flick through) look quickly through (a book, magazine, etc.).

▶noun

• 1 a sudden quick movement or blow.

  ■ (a flick through) a quick look through (a book, magazine, etc.).

• 2 the sudden release of a bent finger or thumb.

• 3 informal a cinema film.

  ■ (the flicks) Brit. the cinema.

– phrases
give someone the flick informal, chiefly Austral. reject someone in a casual way.

– derivatives
flicky adjective.

– origin ME: symbolic, fl- freq. beginning words denoting sudden movement.