flick

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A movie.
• noun A light quick blow, jerk, or touch.
• noun The sound accompanying this motion.
• noun A light splash, dash, or daub.
• intransitive verb To touch or hit with a light quick blow or fillip.
• intransitive verb To cause to move with a sudden movement or jerk.
• intransitive verb To propel or remove with a sudden movement, fillip, or light blow.
• intransitive verb To move in sudden or jerky manner.
• intransitive verb To look through the parts of something by making quick movements with the fingers.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A light sudden stroke, as with a whip or the finger; a flip.
• To strike lightly with a quick jerk, as with a whip or the finger; flip: as, to flick off a fly from a horse.
• In cricket: To move the wrist or forearm quickly at the moment of delivering the ball: said of the bowler.
• To rise quickly from the pitch; bump: said of the ball.
• To flutter; flit, as a bird.
• noun In cricket, a quick turn of the bowler's wrist or forearm at the moment of delivering the ball.
• noun A dialectal form of flitch.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A flitch.
• transitive verb To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap
• transitive verb To throw, snap, or toss with a jerk; to flirt.
• noun A light quick stroke or blow, esp. with something pliant; a flirt; also, the sound made by such a blow.
• noun colloq. A motion picture.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.
• noun informal A motion picture; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema.
• noun fencing A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target.
• noun tennis A powerful underarm volley shot.
• noun The act of pressing a place on a touch screen device.
• noun A flitch.
• verb To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb shine unsteadily
• verb flash intermittently
• noun a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
• verb cause to move with a flick
• verb remove with a flick (of the hand)
• noun a short stroke
• verb twitch or flutter
• verb throw or toss with a quick motion
• noun a light sharp contact (usually with something flexible)
• verb look through a book or other written material
• verb cause to make a snapping sound
• verb touch or hit with a light, quick blow