flip the bird
Verb
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Verb
flip the bird
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see flip, bird
- (colloquial, idiom) (flip someone the bird) To make a rude or obscene gesture (at somebody); particularly, to extend the middle finger.
- I accidentally bumped into him, and he flipped me the bird.
- 2008, Vanessa Grigoriadis, Everybody Sucks, American Society of Magazine Editors (compilers), The Best American Magazine Writing 2008, page 9 ↗,
- This summer, she took some time off in Maine, and before she went posted a picture of herself on Gawker in a bathing suit flipping the bird — "At least I didn't put up the ones of myself in a silver-lame bikini. That would have been a little much," she said, laughing.
- (to make a rude finger gesture) flick off, flip off, give the finger
- French: faire un doigt d'honneur, faire un doigt
- Italian: fare un gestaccio
- Portuguese: dar o dedo
- Spanish: hacer la peineta
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