one-finger salute

== English == === Alternative forms === one-fingered salute, one finger salute, one fingered salute === Noun === one-finger salute (plural one-finger salutes) The obscene gesture made by holding only the middle finger of a hand erect while the rest of the fingers are in a fist. Synonyms: single-digit salute, single-fingered salute, Jersey salute 1951, James Jones, From Here to Eternity, Scribner(1951), page 761; also Delta (1998), →ISBN, page 754: The troops […] gave them back the old one-finger salute of the clenched fist jabbing the stiff middle finger into the air. 1997, Gene Amole, "Put Water Bag On Front Bumper", in Rocky Mountain News, 24 June 1997, reprinted in Amole One More Time, Big Earth Publishing (1998), →ISBN, page 236: They honk, point and whistle. You swear and give them the old one-finger salute. === Verb === one-finger salute (third-person singular simple present one-finger salutes, present participle one-finger saluting, simple past and past participle one-finger saluted) (rare) To give a one-finger salute. 2004 February 19, Brent Wiescamp, 'Re: Things That Make You Go "Hmmm"', alt.sports.football.pro.denver-broncos, Usenet: I've one finger saluted life before. ==== Synonyms ==== (make obscene gesture): give the finger, flick off, flip the bird ==== See also ====