Dictionary definition of “one-finger peace sign”

one-finger peace sign

n. the raised middle finger, intended as an insult; one-finger salute; the finger; the bird; Rockefeller gesture. Subjects: English, Euphemism, Slang

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Citations: 1987 Jamie Simons, Jon Lapidese Los Angeles Times (July 5) “Reebok Diplomacy; Allan Affeldt of Newport Beach, the Activist Behind the Peace March on Moscow” p. 16: Last year, as he and 500 others walked across the country on the Great Peace March, onlookers—“Some with a smile, some displaying the one-finger “peace sign’” as one marcher put it—yelled: “Why don’t you go do this in Russia?” 1994 Tom Hritz Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pennsylvania) (Oct. 25) “The right to bear arms and fingers” p. B1: After Kimberly flashed the one-fingered peace sign at a fellow motorist last week, she was cited for disorderly conduct, found guilty by a district justice and fined $170.…Do you really think the constitutional framers had the finger in mind when they wrote the First Amendment? 1999 Judith Tarr, Harry Turtledove Household Gods (Sept.) p. 382: Nicole started to flip him off, but she hadn’t ever seen the one-fingered peace sign here. 2005 Bikeaccdnt (Tarpon Springs, Florida) (APr. 1) “On any given Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday”: To show him I was a good winner like him, I did the no-handed one-fingered Peace sign as I blew by him. 2006 Alice Ollstein @ Oberlin College Oberlin Review (Sept. 22) “On Saturdays, Kendal Calls for Peace”: We’ve had a few negative responses. Sometimes we get what I call the “one-fingered peace sign” and once a woman pulled over and yelled at us for not supporting the troops.…I’d rather support them by bringing them home.

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