flicks (off)

present tense third-person singular of flick (off)

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Verb
  • Waymo cuts off firetruck with sirens, lights running In a video posted on TikTok on June 18, a Waymo vehicle turned into a lane in Atlanta's entertainment district where a firetruck was driving the wrong direction.
    Irene Wright, USA Today, 24 June 2026
  • But a wartime spike in energy prices has pushed rate cuts off the table for now.
    Scott Horsley, NPR, 17 June 2026
Verb
  • Keith arrests our thinking, and cons us into suppressing our critical faculties with the same kind of internalized surveillance that philosopher Michel Foucault broke down to describe a prison’s use of the panopticon in Discipline and Punish.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
  • Devlin throws a punch at Stone when the chief arrests him for drunken driving.
    Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
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“Flicks (off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flicks%20%28off%29. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.

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