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1. Gleam or glow intermittently
   "The lights were flashing"
   - blink, wink, twinkle, winkle
    
2. Appear briefly
   "The headlines flashed on the screen"
    
3. Display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
   - flaunt, show off, ostentate [archaic], swank, parade
    
4. Make known or cause to appear with great speed
   "The latest intelligence is flashed to all command posts"
    
5. Run or move very quickly or hastily
   - dart, dash, scoot, scud, shoot
    
6. Expose or show briefly
   "he flashed a $100 bill"
    
7. Protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal
   "flash the roof"
    
8. Emit a brief burst of light
   "A shooting star flashed and was gone"

1. A sudden intense burst of radiant energy
    
2. A momentary brightness
    
3. A short vivid experience
   "a flash of emotion swept over him"
   - flashing
    
4. A sudden brilliant understanding
   "he had a flash of intuition"
    
5. A very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
   "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"
   - blink of an eye, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minute, jiff
    
6. A gaudy outward display
   - ostentation, fanfare
    
7. A burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
   - flare
    
8. A short news announcement concerning some on-going news story
   - news bulletin, newsflash, newsbreak
    
9. A bright patch of colour used for decoration or identification
   "red flashes adorned the aeroplane"; "a flash sewn on his sleeve indicated the unit he belonged to"
    
10. A lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
    - photoflash, flash lamp, flashgun, flashbulb, flash bulb

1. Tastelessly showy
   "a flash car"
   - brassy, cheap, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy, schlocky

Derived forms: flashing, flashest, flashes, flashed, flasher

See also: flash back, flasher, flashy, tasteless

Type of: appear, belt along, bit, brainstorm, brainwave, brightness, bucket along, bulletin, cannonball along, convey, cover, display, exhibit, experience, expose, happening, hasten, hie [archaic], hotfoot, insight, lamp, minute, mo, moment, natural event, occurrence, occurrent, patch, pelt along, photographic equipment, race, radiate, rush, rush along, second, show, speed, step on it, visual signal

Part of: flash camera

Encyclopedia: Flash Flash, Staffordshire Flash, The