one-fingered peace sign
n.— «We’ve had a few negative responses. Sometimes we get what I call the “one-fingered peace sign” and once a woman pulled over and yelled at us for not supporting the troops.…I’d rather support them by bringing them home.» —“On Saturdays, Kendal Calls for Peace” by Alice Ollstein in Oberlin College Oberlin Review Sept. 22, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
The origins of the peace symbol, why we say someone who’s enthusiastic is gung ho, a tasty spin on stuffed foccacia that originated in eastern Sicily, curling parents, sharking and other words for driving around a parking lot looking for a...
A Huntsville, Alabama, man asks: What’s the origin of the peace symbol? A good resource on its history is Peace: The Biography of a Symbol, by Ken Kolsbun. This is part of a complete episode.
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