Definitions for flashback

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flashback flash·back

Spelling: [flash-bak]

IPA: /ˈflæʃˌbæk/

Flashback is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 284 anagrams from letters in flashback (aabcfhkls).

Definitions for flashback

noun

1. 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.
2. an event or scene so inserted.
3. Also called flashback hallucinosis. Psychiatry. 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.

Origin of flashback

1910-15; 1965-70 for def 3; noun use of verb phrase flash back

Examples for flashback

Reading Aftermath is like having a flashback to the freakish experience of living through your own death.

Or when Alvy Singer and Annie watch a flashback of her former boyfriend.

To give just one example of the way that culture has influenced how we think about trauma, consider the “flashback.”

No, that would be the flashback revelation that Ross and Monica accidentally kissed once at a party.

Because this was such a long story, we thought we would have to actually go back into a flashback and act out the scenes.

As a flustered Ally regales the encounter, a flashback reveals the entire, surprisingly explicit soap-and-squeegee affair.

In a flashback scene, Alicia tries to rebuild her life by interviewing for jobs and returning to work.

He woke to find Billy gone, and had a momentary panic, a flashback to the day that Fred had gone missing in the night.

Straughan: There was also a flashback scene where Ann answers the phone when Prideaux [Mark Strong] has been shot.

While excoriating the IRS, Huckabee brings his readers along on a flashback to his youth.