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English / phrasal verb

Flick through

MEANING IN ENGLISH

to turn pages quickly and casually without reading everything in detail

In context

01

While waiting at the dental clinic, she flicked through a fashion magazine.

02

He just had five minutes to flick through the report before the boardroom meeting began.

Synonyms

Flip through,skim through,leaf through

Antonyms

Pore over,read thoroughly,study intently

Collocations

Flick through a magazine,flick through pages,flick through a book

Sources

Bidyazo vocabulary library ↗