flea-flicker

[ flee-flik-er ]

/ ˈfliˌflɪk ər /

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noun Football.

a deceptive offensive play in which the ball is passed or transferred laterally before or after a forward pass.

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Words nearby flea-flicker

fleabane, flea beetle, fleabite, flea-bitten, flea collar, flea-flicker, fleam, flea market, fleapit, fleawort, flèche

How to use flea-flicker in a sentence

A pivotal moment comes when Amir admits he felt more than a flicker of pride when fanatics attacked the Twin Towers.
Religion, Race, and a Broadway Hit: The Making of ‘Disgraced’|Tim Teeman|November 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And it all began with a young model rooting through Paris flea markets to find something that made her feel good.
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I grew up in New York and there was a Caldor that had a Sunday flea market.
The TV Superhero Guru Behind ‘The Flash’|Jason Lynch|October 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Six months after he arrived in Paris, he found another high-wheeled bicycle in a flea market and bought that too.
Pryor Dodge's Two-Wheeled Obsession Is Now a Museum of Bike History|Anthony Haden-Guest|September 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST

A flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, from an infected little mammal—usually a rat—can hop from the dying rat onto a human and bite it.
It’s Not Time to Worry About China’s Plague Just Yet|Kent Sepkowitz|July 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On feeling the bite of the flea, thrust the part bitten immediately into boiling water.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;|Various
In the shade the effect is less marked, but the constant flicker makes the same sort of variation, though not to the same extent.
The Painter in Oil|Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst
The hunter and his little son drew closer and watched the last flame flicker and die out.
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children|Mabel Powers
These poor wretches fought for the last flicker of the lamp, which the bears wanted to extinguish altogether.
Black Diamonds|Mr Jkai
There was no light in this rocky intestine of the earth except the red flicker of the camp-fire.
Overland|John William De Forest