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☆ flash·back (flas̸h′bak′)

noun

  1. an interruption in the continuity of a story, play, film, etc. by the narration or portrayal of some earlier episode
  2. such an episode
  3. a vivid, spontaneous recollection of a past experience

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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