From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishflick through something phrasal verbLOOK ATto look at a book, magazine, set of photographs etc quickly Will flicked through Carla’s photo album. → flick→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
flick through • Go on, have a flick through.• I am curled up in the armchair, flicking through a book.• Only when he had returned to his own office did it occur to him to flick through his passport's pages.• Marie's left a load of mags behind, so I pick one up and have a flick through it.• During debates on gravel extraction he could be seen flicking through its pages.• Dougal flicked through the pages, dipping into the typed sections; the handwritten portions could wait.• He flicked through the pages of his appointments diary, which were as ever blank.• While I flick through to the centre pages, the businessman puts his hands in his pockets and waits. 