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Definition of: fillip
(fil′əp) noun
1. A sudden flip of a finger from contact with the thumb; a quick snap or blow with the end of a finger.
2. Anything which serves as an incitement or gives impulse, as to an ambition.
—v.t.
1. To strike by or as by a fillip; snap with the finger.
2. To project or impel, as by a fillip.
—v.i. To make a fillip. [Var. of FLIP]
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