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People around the world from many cultures who speak many languages use profanities within their spoken language, for various reasons. A profanity is a socially offensive language, which may also be called curse words or swearing (British English), cuss words (American English and Canada), swear words, crude language, coarse language, oaths, blasphemous language, vulgar language, lewd language, choice words, or expletives. Likewise, people around the world use hand gestures, very often outside of the widely understood language of 'sign language'. Hand gestures and body gestures can have meanings in other countries and cultures that are not what you think they are -- for instance, an "OK" sign in the United States is a circle made with the thumb and forefinger; in parts of Europe, it could mean that the person to whom you're making the gesture is a big fat zero. However, profanities can also be used in conjunction with a hand gestures.

Examples are:

The little finger - giving the little finger is an obscene hand gesture. ... It is performed by showing the back of a hand and then flipping the little finger upwards. It is used to described as "you clearly have little man syndrome". A gesture used by many Mercedes drivers.

The middle finger - giving the finger or the middle finger (as in giving someone the (middle) finger or the bird or flipping someone off) is an obscene hand gesture. ... It is performed by showing the back of a hand that has only the middle finger extended upwards, though in some locales, the thumb is extended. It could be described as "up yours!"

The index finger - giving the index finger is an obscene hand gesture. ... It is performed by showing the back of a hand with the index finger extended only. Then violently motioning upwards with the whole hand. It is used to described "I will come round there and stick this up you".

A double whammy - Both hands are sometimes used to at impact to the profanity, even behaving childish like alternating both hands whilst motioning them upwards.