[Fr.; echoic of a succession of sharp sounds.] A kind of step in dancing.
1852. Thackeray, Char. & Humour, Wks. 1886, XXIII. 321. He [Congreve] teaches pirouettes and flic-flacs; and how to bow to a lady, and to walk a minuet. Ibid. (1860), Round. Papers, De Juventute, 77. I fell asleep in the stalls, wagging my head in insane dreams, and I hope affording amusement to the company, while the feet of five hundred nymphs were cutting flicflacs on the stage at a few paces’ distance.
