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ˈflashback, n.
[f. the verbal phr. *to flash back.]
1. (See quots. and cf. flash v.1 9 c.)
1903Motoring Ann. 306 The highly inflammable vapour of petrol, and a ‘flash-back’, resulted in the total destruction of the car. 1963Times 27 Feb. 4/5 Three electricians were taken to hospital with burns after a flashback and fire in the power house at the Premier Flour Mills, Silvertown, E.
2. Cinemat. A scene which is a return to a previous action in the film, a cut-back; hence, a revival of the memory of past events, as in a pictorial or written presentation. (See flash n.2 1 e, and v.1 12 b.)
1916Variety 13 Oct. 28/4 In other words the whole thing is a flash-back of the episodes leading up to her marriage. 1928J. Gallishaw Only Two Ways to write Story i. vii. 177 With Sunk the method of presentation was chronological... In the case of Paradise Island the method is reversed. The order instead of being chronological is anti-chronological: it is the flash-back method. 1934H. G. Wells Exper. Autobiogr. II. vii. 487 When goddesses and Sea Ladies vanish and a flash back to the ancestral chimpanzee abolishes the magic caverns of Venus, human beings arrive. 1947Times 1 Nov. 6/4 The film relates, in a prolonged flash-back, how the innocent Indian became corrupted by bewildering contact with those supposed to be his superiors in civilization. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 26 July 453/2 In his new novel..[he] uses with enviable ease a complicated system of flash-backs. |