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flicker

1. flick.er \'flik-*r\ \-(*-)rin\ vb or flick.er.ing [ME flikeren, fr. OE 
   flicorian] 1a: to waver unsteadily : FLUTTER  1b: to move in a quick 
   glancing manner  2: to burn fitfully or with a fluctuating light  3: to 
   appear in a tremulous incomplete form  1: to cause to flicker  2: to 
   produce by flickering 
2. flicker \'flik-(*-)re-\ n 1a: an act of flickering  1b: a sudden brief 
   movement  1c: a momentary quickening  2: a wavering light  3: MOVIE - often 
   used in pl.  - flick.ery aj
3. flicker n [prob. fr. 2flick] : a common large brightly marked woodpecker 
   (Colaptes auratus) of ea stern No. America; also : any of several related 
   birds of the southern and western U.S.