flashback
/ˈflaʃbak
/noun
1A scene in a film, novel, etc. set in a time earlier than the main story: in a series of flashbacks, we follow the pair through their teenage years [mass noun]: the movie tells the story in flashback...
- The talk show framing device allows Ricky (hidden in the shadows) to narrate his story in flashback.
- The story is narrated in flashback by Louis, in a letter written from his prison cell.
- While the film's story is told in flashback, it is certainly a look forward, into the future, for its director.
1.1A disturbing sudden vivid memory of an event in the past, typically as the result of psychological trauma or taking LSD.The disorder is thus characterised by involuntary, persistent remembering or reliving the traumatic event in flashbacks, vivid memories, and recurrent dreams....
- If you have PTSD, you may have vivid nightmares, flashbacks, and bad memories.
- Ordinary events can serve as reminders of the trauma and trigger flashbacks or intrusive images.
2A flame moving rapidly back through a combustible vapour: cooling the area prevented a flashback...
- The explosion is being blamed on a phenomenon called flashback, where the flame burns too quickly for the gas flowing inside the boiler, so is sucked back to the gas supply, causing the explosion.
Rhymes
- startlingly
- start off (or start someone/thing off)
- start on
- start (or get or set) the ball rolling
- start out (or up)
- start over
- Start Point
- start something
- start-up
- star turn
- starvation
- starvation wages
- starve
- starveling
- starve the beast
- Star Wars
- starwort
- stash
- Stasi
- stasis
- -stasis
- stat
- -stat
- statable
- statal