Phrase guide

snap one's fingers

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

No pronunciation record was provided for this word.

1

verb

Meaning 1

To create a cracking or clicking sound with one’s fingers by building tension between the thumb and another finger (middle, index, or ring) and then moving that finger forcefully downward so it hits the thenar eminence of the same hand at a high speed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: click

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

17 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: щракам с пръсти (štrakam s prǎsti) — create a sound with one's fingers
  • Chinese Mandarin: 打響指 /打响指 (dǎ xiǎngzhǐ) — create a sound with one's fingers
  • Dutch: met zijn vingers knippen — create a sound with one's fingers
  • Dutch: knippen — create a sound with one's fingers
  • Finnish: napsauttaa sormiaan — create a sound with one's fingers
  • French: claquer les doigts — create a sound with one's fingers
  • German: mit den Fingern schnippen — create a sound with one's fingers
  • Hungarian: csettint — create a sound with one's fingers
  • Japanese: 指を鳴らす (yubi o narasu) — create a sound with one's fingers
  • Korean: 손가락을 튕기다 (son'garag-eul twinggida) — create a sound with one's fingers
  • Lithuanian: spragtelėti pirštais — create a sound with one's fingers
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: knipsa — create a sound with one's fingers
  • Portuguese: estalar os dedos — create a sound with one's fingers
  • Russian: щёлкать па́льцами (ščólkatʹ pálʹcami) — create a sound with one's fingers
  • Russian: щёлкнуть па́льцами (ščólknutʹ pálʹcami) — create a sound with one's fingers
  • Spanish: chasquear los dedos — create a sound with one's fingers
  • Swedish: knäppa fingrarna — create a sound with one's fingers