Flashback Definition
flăshbăk
flashbacks
noun
flashbacks
An interruption in the continuity of a story, play, film, etc. by an episode portraying a chronologically earlier occurrence.
Webster's New World
A literary or cinematic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological order of a narrative.
American Heritage
Such an episode.
Webster's New World
A vivid, spontaneous recollection of a past experience, often, specif., of a traumatic experience.
Webster's New World
An unexpected recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug long after its original use.
American Heritage Medicine
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Other Word Forms of Flashback
Noun
Singular:
flashback
Plural:
flashbacks
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