tongue flicking
Reptile air sampling
Tongue flicking is the rapid, repeated darting of the tongue, characteristic of snakes and lizards sampling air particles to sense their environment.
In human contexts, it describes a deliberate, often suggestive gesture—flicking the tongue quickly, typically between the fingers in a V shape, to mime oral sex: He made a crude tongue-flicking gesture from across the bar.
- snakeLimbless scaled reptile
- reptileCold-blooded scaled vertebrate
- lizardFour-legged scaled reptile
- forkedDivided into prongs
- pit viperHeat-sensing venomous snake
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