curl·i·cue n.  Some thing curled or spiral, as a flourish made with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper. [Sometimes  written curlycue or carlicue.] [ Colloq. U.S.]
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  curl·y·cue n.  Some thing curled or spiral, as a flourish made with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper.  Same as curlicue. [Sometimes written carlicue.] [ Colloq. U.S.]
  To cut a curlycue, to make a flourish; to cut a caper.
     I gave a flourishing about the room and cut a curlycue with my right foot.   --McClintock.
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