blicker

== English == === Etymology 1 === From dialectal *blick (Middle English bliken) + -er (frequentative), undoubtedly influenced by flicker. ==== Verb ==== blicker (third-person singular simple present blickers, present participle blickering, simple past and past participle blickered) To flicker, to shine or reflect light intermittently. For quotations using this term, see Citations:blicker. (Can we date this quote?), Supreme Court Papers on Appeal, Supreme Court (New York), Affidavit of Samuel Schindler, in a matter of Hammersmith, Schindler et al. vs. New York, Onario & Western Railway Company, regarding injuries sustained on July 31, 1932, page 45 (combined volume page 133): […] he did not see the lights flicker or blicker upon the approach of a train; that they were out of order. […] At the time of the accident, at about 7:30 P. M., he was within close proximity to the accident, and did not see the blickering or flickering of the lights and did not hear any blasts or whistles from the train. === Etymology 2 === From clicker, with the initial "C" replaced with "B" in Blood slang. ==== Noun ==== blicker (plural blickers) (African-American Vernacular, slang) A handgun. === References === “blicker”, in The Right Rhymes, launched 2013.