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  • adjective Attributive form of middle finger, noun.

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Examples

  • A film about Polish actors under Nazi rule, it was a middle-finger salute to Hilter & Co., an angry but hilarious raspberry meant to mock all that was going wrong in the world at that time.

    THE MEL BROOKS COLLECTION Blu-ray Review – Collider.com 2010

  • British singer M.I.A.'s middle-finger gesture during the Super Bowl halftime show prompted finger-pointing and problems for Comcast's NBC, which faces a potential multimillion dollar fine for the obscene gesture.

    What's News— 2012

  • One of the allies was filmed by TV cameras responding with an extended middle-finger.

    Berlusconi Bows Out; Austerity Lies Ahead Stacy Meichtry 2011

  • The guy in the pickup ahead of him hoisted a middle-finger salute in response.

    EF 5 • by J.C. Towler 2009

  • Second, and even more important, the heavy-handed interventions extend a huge middle-finger to the concept of basic democracy within the Democratic Party - not exactly the "new politics" that Obama claims to represent, and certainly not progressive (that is, if you consider being pro-democracy being progressive).

    David Sirota: Obama's Obsession With Confrontation Against the Left 2010

  • Well, seems to me more like middle-finger syndrome.

    Three for the kids’ bookshelf « The Retort 2010

  • On Obaaama's "ask a question" web-site the #1 request was to hold bush&co accountable, yet Obaaama is giving us the middle-finger with his BS "looking ahead".

    Obama and Congress Must Act to Restore the Constitution 2009

  • Rather than spend the morning taking the Secretary of State to the Illinois high court to compel him to execute the document, then showing up at the United States Senate on Wednesday with some decorum, Burris continued to perform his role as graft-alleged Governor Rod Blagojevich's middle-finger salute to the Illinois legislature and President-Elect Barack Obama.

    Brian Ross: Fox News Ate My Brain (I Swear!) - Of Chaos Theory & Roland Burris 2009

  • August 26, 2008 5: 04 PM is it smelling trollish in here or what? mind you, kudos to fogu, with the hilldog middle-finger pic, that is really good lol

    Obama Campaign Developing Aggressive But Low-Key Counterattack To Swift-Boating 2009

  • The Huffington Post's Sam Stein has a great catch: In what may be a middle-finger aimed directly at the advisers who have been privately complaining about him, Matthews went on the air this morning and basically called on Hillary to fire the "kneecappers" in her press office ...

    Horses Mouth Krugman 2009

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