one-finger peace sign
n.— «Last year, as he and 500 others walked across the country on the Great Peace March, onlookers—”Some with a smile, some displaying the one-finger “peace sign’” as one marcher put it—yelled: “Why don’t you go do this in Russia?”» —“Reebok Diplomacy; Allan Affeldt of Newport Beach, the Activist Behind the Peace March on Moscow” by Jamie Simons, Jon Lapidese Los Angeles Times July 5, 1987. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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