finger snapping

the act of creating a snapping sound with one's fingers
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finger snapping

Summary

finger snapping ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (264 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • finger snapping's video is recorded as Snapping fingers.ogv[2].
  • finger snapping's image is recorded as Billingsgate eloquence. (BM 1868,0808.6395).jpg[3].
  • finger snapping's subclass of is recorded as body percussion[4].
  • finger snapping's Commons category is recorded as Finger snapping[5].
  • finger snapping's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/025_jnm[6].
  • finger snapping's MusicBrainz instrument ID is recorded as 34787aa3-1027-498b-af38-4385665cc34c[7].
  • finger snapping's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2909018480[8].
  • finger snapping's Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus ID is recorded as mp2013015264[9].
  • finger snapping's American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID is recorded as afset006860[10].
  • finger snapping's SEKO ID is recorded as 00973[11].

Why It Matters

finger snapping ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (264 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . Q14005. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). finger snapping. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/finger-snapping
MLA “finger snapping.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/finger-snapping.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_finger-snapping_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{finger snapping}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/finger-snapping}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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