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to flick through
01
to quickly browse through the pages of a book, magazine, or other document without reading it thoroughly
Grammatical Information
Composition
phrasal
Action verb
Regular
Inseparable
Particle
through
Base verb
flick
Present tense
flick through
3rd person singular
flicks through
Present participle
flicking through
Past simple
flicked through
Past participle
flicked through
Examples
She flicked through the novel to find her favorite passage.
02
to rapidly change television channels to check what programs are currently broadcasting
Examples
When they could n't decide what to watch, they spent the evening flicking through the TV channels.
