as in blow
a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument
gave him a sharp fillip on the noggin with her teakettle
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as in to stimulate
to give life, vigor, or spirit to
used a splash of orange-flavored liqueur to fillip the otherwise ordinary cranberry sauce
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John Hopewell, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
Morris, however, can’t resist adorning them with fillips and flourishes of his own.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2023
The new styling is essentially S550 with less fillip and more sneer.
—Sam Smith, Car and Driver, 25 Aug. 2023
The move will provide a further fillip to New Delhi’s attempt to position the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City, or GIFT City, as an alternative trading center to Singapore and Dubai.
—Subhadip Sircar, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2023
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In a fillip for Spain’s box office, still 26% down on pre-pandemic levels, Movistar Plus+ will bow all five movies in cinema theaters and co-produce them with independent producers, Domingo Corral, Movistar Plus+ director of fiction and entertainment, said at a presentation in Madrid on Thursday.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
Morris, however, can’t resist adorning them with fillips and flourishes of his own.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2023
The new styling is essentially S550 with less fillip and more sneer.
—Sam Smith, Car and Driver, 25 Aug. 2023
The move will provide a further fillip to New Delhi’s attempt to position the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City, or GIFT City, as an alternative trading center to Singapore and Dubai.
—Subhadip Sircar, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2023
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“Fillip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fillip. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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