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Giving someone the finger, also known as flipping the bird or flipping someone off, is an obscene hand gesture. The gesture communicates moderate to extreme contempt, and is roughly equivalent in mean
An example of "giving the middle finger"
The Cynic philosopher Diogenes, pictured by Gérôme with the large jar in which he lived; when strangers at the inn were expressing their wish to catch sight of the great orator Demosthenes, Diogenes is said to have stuck out his middle finger and exclaimed "This, for you, is the demagogue of the Athenians."
Boston Braves baseball pitcher Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn pictured giving the finger to a cameraman, 1886. First known photograph of the gesture.
Ukrainian postage stamp featuring a Ukrainian soldier in battle dress flipping off the Moskva
"Russian warship, go fuck yourself" was the final communication made on 24 February, the first day of the 2022 Snake Island campaign, by Ukrainian border guard Roman Hrybov to the Russian missile crui
Billboard in Dnipro, Ukraine, with the statement written in Russian
Snake Island in 2008
Cruiser Moskva in 2009
Patrol ship Vasily Bykov in 2022