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flick

n. countable
B1 Intermediate US //ˈfɫɪk// UK //flˈɪk// flick Archaic Informal Slang

n. a movie or film. You use this word when you are talking casually with friends about what to watch tonight.

n. a motion picture or film. Informal in register; frequently used in the plural to refer to the cinema as a destination.


SIMPLE

Do you want to go see a flick tonight?

CONTEXTUAL

We stayed in on Friday night and watched an old black-and-white flick on television.

COMPLEX

While the director's early work consisted of low-budget horror flicks, his later projects earned significant critical acclaim at international festivals.

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Origin

From Middle English flykke (“light blow or stroke”). Later uses apparently interpreted as a back-formation from flicker. The use of flick to mean a film or movie derives from the fact that early films had a low frame rate, thus causing the film to "flick" rapidly when projected onto a screen.

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