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fillip For the canned speeches over the in-flight PA—always somehow invested with a fillip of real feeling—and the limp theater of the safety demonstration, the long-suffering puff into the tiny tube on the life jacket.

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n. A stimulus, energizer; originally a snap of the fingers. The Atlantic, Dec. 2020

Word	fillip
Definition	n. A stimulus, energizer; originally a snap of the fingers.
Sentence	For the canned speeches over the in-flight PA—always somehow invested with a fillip of real feeling—and the limp theater of the safety demonstration, the long-suffering puff into the tiny tube on the life jacket.
Source	The Atlantic, Dec. 2020

Fillip N Stimulus Energizer Originally Snap Fingers Canned