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JAMES O’BRIEN: SPRICK

December 11, 2013

According to James O’Brien, “Sprick is a term from my junior high school days. Using your thumb, you held back your finger, tensing it up, and then, when you loosened your thumb, your finger snapped out at its target, the earlobe of the person sitting in front of you for example, causing sharp pain.”  

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“This is also how you flick a paper football,” he further muses. “But we called it sprick rather than flick, probably because it sounded less friendly…”

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