1787. Grose, Provincial Glossary, s.v. vlick. 2. (common).—A jocular salutation; usually old flick. Cf., Codger and My Tulip. 1883. Punch, 28 July, p. 38, col. 1. Well, last night, They’d a feet in these gardens, old flick, as was something too awfully quite. Verb. (thieves’).—1. To cut. 1690. B. E., New Dict. of the Canting Crew. Flicking, c., to cut, cutting. 1728. Bailey, Eng. Dict. (flick is given as a ‘country word’). 1785. Grose, Dict. Vulg. Tongue. Flick me some pannam and cassan, cut me some bread and cheese; flick the peter, cut off the cloak bag or portmanteau. 1791. Carew, Life and Adventures, q.v. 1837. Disraeli, Venetia, ch. xiv. Flick the bread, cut the bread. 1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, or Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v. Flick the Peter and rake the swag for I want to pad my beaters. 2. (colloquial).—To strike with, or as with, a whip. 1836. Dickens, Pickwick, ch. xliii. Near him, leaning listlessly against the wall, stood a strong-built countryman, flicking with a worn-out hunting whip the top-boot that adorned his right foot. 1852. Dickens, Bleak House, ch. xxvii. Who ... receives this compliment by flicking Mr. George in the face with a head of greens. 1854. Our Cruise in the Undine, p. 103. It appeared to us that one of the most frequent, and therefore we supposed the principal stroke aimed at (in a Heidelberg duel), was to strike your sword low down, perhaps four inches from the handle, upon your adversary’s bandaged arm, so that the end of the weapon (the only part that is sharpened) should Flick itself against your opponent’s face. 1863. Hon. Mrs. Norton, Lost and Saved, p. 29. Drivers shouting, swearing, and flicking at the horses. Flicker, subs. (Old Cant).—A drinking glass. 1690. B. E., New Dict. of the Canting Crew. Flicker, c., a drinking-glass; Flicker snapt, c., the glass is broken; Nim the flicker, c., steal the glass; Rum flicker, c., a large glass or rummer; Queer flicker, c., a green or ordinary glass. French Synonyms.—Une lampe (masons’); un guindal (popular); un godet (very old); une gobette (thieves’); un gobeson (thieves’). Verb. 1. To drink.—Matsell. 2. (old).—To laugh wantonly; also to kiss, or lewdly fondle a woman.—Palsgrave. For synonyms, see Firkytoodle. 1690. B. E., New Dict. of the Canting Crew, s.v. Flicker, to grin or flout. Also Flicking = (1) drinking, and (2) wanton laughter. Let her flicker, phr. (American).—Said of any doubtful issue: ‘let the matter take its chance.’ Flicket-a-Flacket, adv. (old).—Onomatopoetic for a noise of flapping and flicking. 1719. Durfey, Pills, etc., ii., 20. Their bellies went flicket-a-flacket. Flier or Flyer, subs. (racing and yachting).—1. A horse or boat of great speed; also (American railway) a fast train; hence, by implication, anything of excellence. Cf., Dasher, Daisy, etc. Also adj., = keen for.