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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024flash•back /ˈflæʃˌbæk/USA pronunciation n. - Literature
- [uncountable] a technique in literature or film in which an earlier event is depicted after the time it actually occurred.
- [countable] the scene so shown:In a flashback we see her remembering that summer at the beach.
- Psychiatry a vivid recollection of a past event:[countable]a sudden flashback of the accident.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024flash•back (flash′bak′),USA pronunciation n. - a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
- an event or scene so inserted.
- PsychiatryAlso called flash′back hallucino′sis.
- the spontaneous recurrence of visual hallucinations or other effects of a drug, as LSD, long after the use of the drug has been discontinued.
- recurrent and abnormally vivid recollection of a traumatic experience, as a battle, sometimes accompanied by hallucinations.
- 1910–15; 1965–70 for def. 3; noun, nominal use of verb, verbal phrase flash back
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: flashback /ˈflæʃˌbæk/ n - a transition in a novel, film, etc, to an earlier scene or event
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