flick v
   In phr flick the stick: a children's game in which a stick is placed on rocks and flicked up into air with another piece of wood; PIDDLY, TIDDLY.
   1973 BARBOUR 26 Spring also meant the playing of different games, once the snow had disappeared...
   Hop-scotch was the first on our list... After that came 'Flick the Stick.' . . for 'flick the stick,' nothing, just nothing, took the place of the nice rounded broom which had been sawed into two pieces.

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