flip through
• look quickly through a book, magazine, etc.
• "McLeish flipped through his notes"
Similar:
thumb (through),
leaf through,
flick through,
run through,
skim through,
scan,
look through,
riffle through,
browse through,
dip into,
glance at/through,
peruse,
read quickly,
have a quick look at,
run one's eye over,
give something a/the once-over,
Opposite:
pore over,
flip
noun
• a sudden quick movement.
• "she dismissed his qualms with a flip of her hand"
Origin:
mid 16th century (as a verb in the sense ‘make a flick with the finger and thumb’): probably a contraction of fillip.
