snap one's fingers

English

Snapping one's fingers

Snapping one's fingers

Verb

snap one's fingers (third-person singular simple present snaps one's fingers, present participle snapping one's fingers, simple past and past participle snapped one's fingers)

1. To create a cracking or clicking sound with one’s fingers by building tension between the thumb and another finger (middle, index, or ring) and then moving that finger forcefully downward so it hits the thenar eminence of the same hand at a high speed.

   Synonym: (Britain) click

Translations

create a sound with one's fingers

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: щракам с пръсти (štrakam s prǎsti)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 打響指／打响指 (dǎ xiǎngzhǐ)

• Dutch: met zijn vingers knippen, knippen (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: napsauttaa sormiaan
• French: claquer les doigts
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: mit den Fingern schnippen
• Hungarian: csettint (hu)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: estalar os dedos
• Russian: щёлкать па́льцами impf (ščólkatʹ pálʹcami), щёлкнуть па́льцами pf (ščólknutʹ pálʹcami)
• Spanish: chasquear los dedos
• Swedish: knäppa fingrarna
• Thai: please add this translation if you can