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Air quotes

Air quotes, also called finger quotes, are virtual quotation marks formed in the air with one's fingers when speaking. The gesture is typically done with both hands held shoulder-width apart and at the eye or shoulders level of the speaker, with the index and middle fingers on each hand flexing at the beginning and end of the phrase being quoted. The…

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Air quotes

Nodes28
Edges27
Triples21
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.071429
Components1

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related to history · 20
Air quotes → Alice Pearce, Bewitched, Breakfast, Celebrity Charades, Emergency, Gladys Kravitz, Glenda Farrell, In, Kurt Andersen, Lewis Carroll's, Nurse's Wild, Paul Rudnick, Prodigy, Rampart Hospital, Roy DeSoto, Spy, The, TV, Two, Use
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Air quotes → The Washington Post

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Air quotesrelated to historyUse0.60section
Air quotesrelated to historyGlenda Farrell0.60section
Air quotesrelated to historyBreakfast0.60section
Air quotesrelated to historyTwo0.60section
Air quotesrelated to historyIn0.60section
Air quotesrelated to historyLewis Carroll's0.60section
Air quotesrelated to historyThe0.60section
Air quotesrelated to historySpy0.60section
Air quotesrelated to historyPaul Rudnick0.60section
Air quotesrelated to historyKurt Andersen0.60section
Air quotesrelated to historyTV0.60section
Air quotesrelated to historyCelebrity Charades0.60section

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