flashback
pronunciation
How to pronounce flashback in British English:
UK [ˈflæʃbæk]
How to pronounce flashback in American English:
US [ˈflæʃbæk]
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- Noun:
- a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
- an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)
Word Origin
- flashback (n.)
- also flash-back, 1903 in reference to fires in engines or furnaces, from verbal phrase (1902), from flash (v.) + back (adv.). Movie plot device sense is from 1916. The hallucinogenic drug sense is attested in psychological literature from 1970, which means probably hippies were using it a few years before.
Example
- 1. We see his story in flashback .
- 2. Even small children seeing a flashback for the first time understand what 's being conveyed .
- 3. As I engaged in this type of thinking , in my mind 's eye I could feel and see the mugger sneaking up behind me getting ready to hit me - something they call a flashback a frightening experience to say the least .
- 4. One of the images of the buddha dissolves into the face of a young man , and then a flashback begins that will tell oharu 's life from near the beginning .
- 5. Through a flashback , we learn that stefan shared a wild night out with klaus and his sister rebekah , and the men even toasted to friendship .