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Translingual
Production
Press the middle finger and thumb together and then fling the middle finger onto your palm, producing a clicking or snapping sound. (Not all people are capable of doing this.)
Interjection
[finger snapping]
- Used as a peremptory way to get somebody's attention, for example a waiter in a restaurant.
- Indicates remembering something previously forgotten.
- 2012, "Desperate Souls", season 1, episode 6 of Once Upon a Time
- Rumpelstiltskin: Have you forgotten me already? What was it you used to call me again? Spindleshanks? Hobblefoot.
- Used as a sassy, provocative way to show oneself to be dominant, to show who's boss.