flip the bird

Verb

 * 1)  To make a rude or obscene gesture (at somebody); particularly, to extend the middle finger.
 * 2) * 2008, Vanessa Grigoriadis, Everybody Sucks, American Society of Magazine Editors (compilers), The Best American Magazine Writing 2008, page 9,
 * This summer, she took some time off in Maine, and before she went posted a picture of herself on Gawker in a bathing suit flipping the bird — "At least I didn't put up the ones of myself in a silver-lame bikini. That would have been a little much," she said, laughing.
 * 1) * 2008, Vanessa Grigoriadis, Everybody Sucks, American Society of Magazine Editors (compilers), The Best American Magazine Writing 2008, page 9,
 * This summer, she took some time off in Maine, and before she went posted a picture of herself on Gawker in a bathing suit flipping the bird — "At least I didn't put up the ones of myself in a silver-lame bikini. That would have been a little much," she said, laughing.
 * 1) * 2008, Vanessa Grigoriadis, Everybody Sucks, American Society of Magazine Editors (compilers), The Best American Magazine Writing 2008, page 9,
 * This summer, she took some time off in Maine, and before she went posted a picture of herself on Gawker in a bathing suit flipping the bird — "At least I didn't put up the ones of myself in a silver-lame bikini. That would have been a little much," she said, laughing.

Usage notes
In the idiomatic sense, often used with an indirect object in the form flip [someone] the bird.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: näyttää keskisormea
 * French: faire un doigt d'honneur,
 * German: den Stinkefinger zeigen, den Mittelfinger zeigen
 * Italian: fare un gestaccio
 * Ojibwe: nimiskam
 * Polish: pokazać środkowy palec
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: показа́ть сре́дний па́лец
 * Spanish: hacer la peineta
 * Swedish: peka finger, ge fingret