Definitions for flashbulb

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flashbulb flash·bulb

Spelling: [flash-buhlb]

IPA: /ˈflæʃˌbʌlb/

Flashbulb is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 194 anagrams from letters in flashbulb (abbfhllsu).

Definitions for flashbulb

noun

1. a glass bulb, filled with oxygen and aluminum or zirconium wire or foil, which, when ignited electrically, burns with a brilliant flash to provide momentary illumination of a subject.

Origin of flashbulb

First recorded in 1930-35; flash + bulb

Examples for flashbulb

The tangle of enormous fake diamonds resting on top of her cleavage sparkles at every flashbulb.

It was what he'd seen when the flashbulb of his gun-camera went off.

You aim, pull the trigger, and the shutter opens as the flashbulb goes off.

It's as though when we first learn of it a flashbulb has imprinted in our recall the details of the event.