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thumb 1. noun marijuana; a marijuana cigarette. Probably because you suck your thumb for comfort in much the same way as you suck on a cigarette US, 1960.► on the thumbhitchhiking UK, 2004.► with the thumbin betting, used for indicating that the current odds will not continue to be offered for long. From the TICK-TACK signal used by bookmakers UK, 1991 2. verb to hitchhike US, 1932.► thumb your noseto treat someone or something contemptously US, 1973
idiomthumbhave a green thumb AmEAmEto be good at looking after plants so that they grow well:She's one of those people who takes care of every stray cat and has an incredible green thumb. Her apartment's a jungle.I took one look at the garden. "You are definitely not the one with the green thumb, are you!"BrE = have green fingersstick/stand out like a sore thumbused in order to say that someone or something is very easy to notice, or looks wrong or strange, because they are so different from everyone or everything around them:We live in a village where any stranger, especially a foreigner, would stick out like a sore thumb.I don't know why they had to build such an ugly office block - it sticks out like a sore thumb.twiddle your thumbsto do nothing, either because you have nothing to do, or because you are waiting for something to happen:We don't want to strike, but we can't just sit around twiddling our thumbs until the management produce an offer.Basically, he's getting paid £20,000 a year to sit in an office and twiddle his thumbs.under sb's thumbused in order to say that someone is completely controlled by a person or organization:Sarah's got you totally under her thumb - you do everything she tells you.A few Hong Kong residents are still a little anxious about being back under Beijing's thumb. phrasethumb[thumbed, thumbed, thumbing]
thumb through
thumb through sth to turn the pages of a book, magazine etc, but not read it carefully: She sat in the dentist's waiting room thumbing through an old copy of Vogue magazine.■ SIMILAR TO: glance through, flick through BrE, leaf through
See:- a pricking in (one's) thumbs
- a pricking in your thumbs
- a rule of thumb
- all thumbs
- all thumbs, to be
- be all fingers and thumbs
- be all thumbs
- be twiddling (one's) thumbs
- be twiddling your thumbs
- bite (one's) thumb at
- brown thumb
- give (something) the thumbs down
- give (something) the thumbs up
- give something the thumbs down
- give something the thumbs up
- green thumb
- green-thumbed
- have (someone) under (one's) thumb
- have a green thumb
- hitch a lift
- hitch a ride
- hold (one's) thumbs
- hold thumbs
- hold your thumbs
- keep (someone) under (one's) thumb
- rule of thumb
- stand out like a sore thumb
- stand/stick out like a sore thumb
- stick out
- stick out like a sore thumb
- stick out like a sore thumb, to
- the thumbs up/down
- thumb (one's) nose at (someone or something)
- thumb a lift
- thumb a ride
- thumb nose
- thumb nose at
- thumb on the scale
- thumb one's nose
- thumb through
- thumb through (something)
- thumb your nose at
- thumb your nose at somebody/something
- thumb your nose at someone
- thumb/hitch a lift
- thumbs down
- thumbs up
- turn thumbs down
- turn thumbs down (on something)
- turn thumbs down on someone/something
- turn thumbs up
- turn thumbs up (on something)
- twiddle (one's) thumbs
- twiddle one’s thumbs
- twiddle one's thumbs
- twiddle one's thumbs, to
- twiddle thumbs
- twiddle your thumbs
- two thumbs up
- under (one's) thumb
- under somebody's thumb
- under someone’s thumb
- under someone's thumb
- under thumb
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