Usually means: Sudden, vivid memory of past.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. flashback: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. flashback: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flashback: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flashback: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flashback: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flashback, flashback: Wordnik
  7. flashback: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flashback: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. flashback: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. flashback: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. flashback: Dictionary.com
  12. flashback: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  14. flashback: Rhymezone
  15. flashback: Free Dictionary
  16. flashback: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. flashback: Dictionary/thesaurus
  18. flashback: Wiktionary

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Flashback: Literary Terms

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FlashBack: CCI Computer
  2. Flashback (continuity), Flashback (literary technique), Flashback (narrative technique), flashback: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  3. Flashback (continuity), Flashback (literary technique), Flashback (narrative technique), flashback: Medical dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. flashback: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. flashback: ESL Slang page
  3. Flashback: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. flashback: Television: Critical Methods and Applications

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.
noun:  (psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in the present, especially one that recurs.
noun:  A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
noun:  The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system.
noun:  (databases) A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.
verb:  (intransitive) To undergo a flashback; to experience a vivid mental image from the past.

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