verb
- Travel by getting free rides from motorists.
- Look through a book or other written material.
- usage: "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume"
- Feel or handle with the fingers.
- usage: "finger the binding of the book"
adjective
- Of pages. ( worn or soiled by thumb and fingers by frequent handling or turning)
- usage: "well-thumbed pages of the dictionary"
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