What does thumb-up mean?

thumb-up

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English

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noun

"President Donald Trump gives a thumb-up during his NBC News town hall in Miami tonight."
"The Knicks are hoping that Karl-Anthony Towns will be a thumb-up for Wednesday’s game in Philadelphia."
"Is it a thumb-up, a thumb-down, or is your fist still hovering uncertainly in the air?"

thumbs-up (plural)

How to pronounce thumb-up

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