flip the bird

短语

竖中指

发音

AU

词形变化

flipped the bird flipping the bird flips the bird 三单 flips the bird flipping the bird 现在分词 flipped the bird 过去式 flipped the bird 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To make a rude or obscene gesture (at somebody); particularly, to extend the middle finger.

    竖中指

    非正式 习语

    I accidentally bumped into him, and he flipped me the bird.

    2008, Vanessa Grigoriadis, Everybody Sucks, American Society of Magazine Editors (compilers), The Best American Magazine Writing 2008, page 9, This summer, she took some time off in Maine, and before she went posted a picture of herself on Gawker in a bathing suit flipping the bird — "At least I didn't put up the ones of myself in a silver-lame bikini. That would have been a little much," she said, laughing.

  2. 2.

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see flip, bird.