middle finger
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- noun
- /ˈmɪdəl ˈfɪŋɡər/
- Offensive
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gesto del dedo medio
- When he was cut off in traffic, he raised his middle finger in anger.
- give the middle finger
- raised middle finger
- extended middle finger
We voted with our middle finger, said one Trump South Carolina voter.
- We voted with our middle finger, said one Trump South Carolina voter.
- There's just no respect for the customer here, a hidden middle finger waiting to gouge your wallet.
- We're going to give CNBC the fat middle finger.
- So like that's that's a big middle finger to the Pope to be like you're going to get reincarnated.
- It was a big middle finger to the Athenian intellectual establishment.
- Please don't have all your pictures with you using the middle finger, duck faces or some form of a gang sign.
- Dude, it must be fun to be driving that rock Tumblr when you're a mom, you know, skating by with that middle finger out, sending your son off to rehab.
- I like that you did just also have an announcement between Apple and Broadcom, but that's more of a middle finger to Qualcomm than it is to NVIDIA.
- It's a, it's a, it's a middle finger to the Christians saying we won, you lost, the beast won.
- and then and then I walk past the mint and I give, I give the middle finger. I do. That's true. That's a religious experience, dude. Like,
- It's just our circles consist of people who are rebellious, who are free thinkers, who are sovereign, Who will give the middle finger to the man.
- I've yes, I'm still the guy with, you know, both middle fingers in the air, But now I'm saying fuck you.
- It's kind of like giving the middle finger and saying you tried everything you could to break me and I still rose up again.
Examples
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We voted with our middle finger, said one Trump South Carolina voter.
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- It's your middle finger.
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Always, always use the middle finger because why not?
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This is a middle finger to the Gold Star families.
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Apparently, his reaching across the aisle was with his middle finger extended.
Blog text (29) -
After Jay-Z said this, he asked us to put our middle fingers up.
Blog text (27) -
It was a big middle finger to the Athenian intellectual establishment.
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It's a full-on middle finger to Obama, Reid, Boehner, and everyone else in Washington, DC.
Blog text (14) -
So like that's that's a big middle finger to the Pope to be like you're going to get reincarnated.
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Hornbeck exchanged thrusting middle fingers with Norman DeLuca, then put the truck into first gear and eased out the clutch.
Fiction book (1991)
How Rude
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase literally denotes the finger in the middle of the hand, so that anatomical sense is directly compositional from 'middle' + 'finger'. However, the conventionalized meaning as a rude insulting gesture is a culturally learned use that cannot be fully derived from the constituents alone, so overall the expression shows partial (but not full) transparency.
Etymology
Middle finger became a rude gesture long ago; one popular story says people used the raised long finger as a picture of a penis to insult someone. So today, showing the middle finger means 'to insult' or 'show contempt'.