flip through
phrasal verbflip through something
- to look quickly through a book, magazine, website, etc. without reading everything synonym flick through
- She flipped through the magazine looking for the letters page.
- I flipped through the photos before choosing three that I liked.
- I flipped through my phone messages but there was nothing from Ed.
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- (especially North American English) to keep changing television channels quickly to see what shows are on synonym flick through
- Flipping through the channels, I came across an old war movie.