Usually means: Make minimal effort; barely participate.
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  1. lift a finger: Merriam-Webster
  2. lift a finger: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lift a finger: Wiktionary
  4. lift a finger: Dictionary.com
  5. lift a finger: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. lift a finger: Legal dictionary
  2. lift a finger: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lift a finger: Encyclopedia

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  1. lift a finger: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (lift a finger)

verb:  (figuratively, chiefly in the negative) To make minimal effort; to help as little as possible.
verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lift, finger.

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