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English
Etymology 1
From dialectal *blick (Middle English bliken) + -er (frequentative), undoubtedly influenced by flicker.
Verb
blicker (third-person singular simple present blickers, present participle blickering, simple past and past participle blickered)
- To flicker, to shine or reflect light intermittently.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:blicker.
- (Can we date this quote?), Supreme Court Papers on Appeal, Supreme Court (New York), Affidavit of Samuel Schindler, in a matter of Hammersmith, Schindler et al. vs. New York, Onario & Western Railway Company, regarding injuries sustained on July 31, 1932, page 45 (combined volume page 133):
- he did not see the lights flicker or blicker upon the approach of a train; that they were out of order. At the time of the accident, at about 7:30 P. M., he was within close proximity to the accident, and did not see the blickering or flickering of the lights and did not hear any blasts or whistles from the train.
Etymology 2
From clicker, with the initial "C" replaced with "B" in Blood slang.
Noun
blicker (plural blickers)
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A handgun.
2020 May 15, “No Matter What” (0:19 from the start), in The Goat, performed by Polo G:War zone, I'm on my way to school, got my blicker tucked
References
- “blicker”, in The Right Rhymes, launched 2013.