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finger
noun- a gesture of contempt, the index finger raised from a fist with the palm inwards as the hand jerks upward suggesting an intimate destination US, 1961
Often accompanied with an invitation to “spin on it”, TWIST!OLIVER TWIST - To give the finger to man like Flint Granite was, of course, reprehensible[.] — Max Shulman, Anyone Got a Match?, p. 25, 1964
- [S]he says something rude that I can’t hear and Julian gives her the finger. — Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero, p. 178, 1985
- But he felt the other boys’ eyes on him and flipped the finger anyhow. — Jess Mowry, Way Past Cool, p. 20, 1992
- She’s giving us the finger. — J.J. Connolly, Know Your Enemy [britpulp], p. 155, 1999
- an unpopular individual UK
Metropolitan Police slang. - — Peter Laurie, Scotland Yard, p. 323, 1970
- a pickpocket UK, 1925
- [S]he started two timing him with the biggest grass in the whole smoke [London], a finger known as Harry the Thief. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 107, 1956
- a marijuana cigarette UK, 2001
From the shape. - — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 287, 2003
- an individual banana in a bunch CAYMAN ISLANDS
- — Aarona Booker Kohlman, Wotcha Say, p. 23, 1985
- a citizens’ band radio antenna US
- — Dictionary of CB Lingo, p. 65, 1976: “Elementary electronics”
▶ get your finger out; pull your finger out; take your finger out; pull it out
to stop time-wasting and start doing something useful UK
Often used as a semi-exclamatory injunction. Probably “out from up your arse” but there is no need to say so.- MILLIGAN: Cor blimey, where’s the fire? BELL: Get your finger out then. — Graeme Kent, The Queen’s Corporal [Six Granada Plays], p. 87, 1959
- “They have been working me too hard here. I’m looking for the easy life.” He grinned again. “Ha-ha, now you’ll have to take your finger out, won’t you, Golden Boy?” — George Johnston, My Brother Jack, p. 312, 1964
- “Get you finger out. Rufe, get cracking and none of your backchat.” — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 44, 1969
- I come pounding up, say, “Pull it out, for cheese cake” [Christ’s sake]. — Nicholas Blincoe, The Beautiful Beaten-up Irish Boy of the Arndale Centre, p. 11, 1998
▶ have your finger up your arse
to be doing nothing UK- Leave the probabtion officer with his finger up his arse; and good luck. — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 74, 1964
▶ lift a finger; move a finger
to make the slightest effort, usually applied in a negative sense to a lack of effort UK, 1936- They wouldn’t even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. — Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 1979
- Do you think for a moment I should lift a finger to help her? — Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost, p. 85, 1998
▶ on the finger
on credit US- — Swen A. Larsen, American Speech, p. 97, May 1951: “The vocabulary of poker”
- — Albert H. Morehead, The Complete Guide to Winning Poker, p. 262, 1967
- — David M. Hayano, Poker Faces, p. 185, 1982
▶ put the finger on
to identify; to name; to inform on somebody US, 1924- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 51, 1996
▶ put your finger on
to identify or explain exactly UK, 1973- Perhaps it the idea that hip hop is “just about good music”, because it’s always been about more than that for me; even if I can’t quite put my finger on exactly what I mean. — Patrick Neate, Where You’re At, p. 43, 2003
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