Crossword-Solution: FILLIP
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fillip | v. t. | To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger. |
| Fillip | v. t. | To snap; to project quickly. |
| Fillip | n. | A jerk of the finger forced suddenly from the thumb; a smart blow. |
| Fillip | n. | Something serving to rouse or excite. |
We have 29 clues for the answer “FILLIP”
| Clue | Answers |
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| something that adds stimulation or enjoyment | 1 answer |
| Snap from the end of the thumb | 1 answer |
| Small stimulus | 1 answer |
| Lift boy picked up | 1 answer |
| FIG, not to care a | 1 answer |
| Exciting embellishment | 1 answer |
| A flick or flourish. | 1 answer |
| Something that excites | 1 answer |
| snap with finger | 1 answer |
| Spinner's action | 1 answer |
| Extra touch | 2 answers |
| Nice extra | 2 answers |
| Flick | 17 answers |
| forbidden fruit | 22 answers |
| ACTIVATOR | 28 answers |
| excitant | 34 answers |
| Incitement. | 34 answers |
| Ginger | 34 answers |
| Stimulant | 38 answers |
| Stimulus | 39 answers |
| Embellishment | 48 answers |
| Flip ___ | 55 answers |
| flirt | 59 answers |
| Inducement | 64 answers |
| Incentive | 65 answers |
| Reassurance | 70 answers |
| Encouragement | 70 answers |
| Stimulate | 71 answers |
| Snap | 94 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FILLIP (5)
Why should she suppose a mistake? What if it were true, this wonderful fillip of fortune striking in there like some chance-driven bolt? “Oh, do you think so?” she gasped.
They could tell the people who had come down from London for the day; the keen air gave a fillip to their weariness.
Another circumstance, of a similar kind, gave an additional fillip to the phrase, and infused new life and vigour into it, just as it was dying away.
Nevertheless, my stray visits to Titbull’s since the date of this occurrence, have confirmed me in an impression that it was a wholesome fillip.
There was no bungling movement of hand or foot when he laid his pipe upon the rock, tiptoed around the corner, sent a mechanical glance upward toward the swaying branches of an overhanging tree, pulled out his six feet of silk line with a sweep of his arm, and with a delicate fillip, sent the fly skittering over the glassy center of the pool.
Quotes with FILLIP (2)
Oh, I am so sick of the young men of the present day!” exclaimed she, rattling away at the instrument. “Poor, puny things, not fit to stir a step beyond papa’s park gates: nor to go even so far without mama’s permission and guardianship! Creatures so absorbed in care about their pretty faces, and their white hands, and their small feet; as if a man had anything to do with beauty! As if loveliness were not the special prerogative of woman — her legitimate appanage and heritage…
It seems so long ago that he was last afraid of anything. Seventeen, was he then? Eighteen? Sometimes he thinks he's missing a lot by being like this - fear gives life a fillip. He wonders how it is he lost it all, and what there is - if anything - ever to bring it back. ("Jane Brown's Body")
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1951–2015).