| 单词 | flip the bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto flip the bird transitive. North American slang. to flip the bird, to make (an obscene and offensive gesture of contempt) at a person by raising the middle finger (see bird n. 16b). Now usually to flip (a person) the bird; also to flip (a person) off (also figurative). ΚΠ 1968 C. F. Baker et al. College Undergraduate Slang Study (typescript, Brown Univ.) 80 Bird, flip a/the, to gesture with the middle finger. 1972 G. Lucas et al. Amer. Graffiti (film script, second draft) 33 (stage direct.) He motions to roll down the window. She flips him the bird instead. 1984 TriQuarterly Spring 313 It looks like she's just about to flip him off too. 1993 Sports Illustr. 27 Sept. 71/1 Judge him in the end for what he did. Flipping the bird was not to be part of that judgement. 2001 Esquire May 146/3 Flipping off a friend, in a good way, a male-bonding way... Our eyes meet, and I give him the finger. He understands completely. to flip (a person) the bird transitive. North American slang. to flip the bird, to make (an obscene and offensive gesture of contempt) at a person by raising the middle finger (see bird n. 16b). Now usually to flip (a person) the bird; also to flip (a person) off (also figurative). ΚΠ 1968 C. F. Baker et al. College Undergraduate Slang Study (typescript, Brown Univ.) 80 Bird, flip a/the, to gesture with the middle finger. 1972 G. Lucas et al. Amer. Graffiti (film script, second draft) 33 (stage direct.) He motions to roll down the window. She flips him the bird instead. 1984 TriQuarterly Spring 313 It looks like she's just about to flip him off too. 1993 Sports Illustr. 27 Sept. 71/1 Judge him in the end for what he did. Flipping the bird was not to be part of that judgement. 2001 Esquire May 146/3 Flipping off a friend, in a good way, a male-bonding way... Our eyes meet, and I give him the finger. He understands completely. < as lemmas |
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