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flash back

1. verb To momentarily show or describe a past time or occurrence, as in a book, movie, or TV show. I liked that part when the narrator flashed back to all the times she had encountered the strange man before.

2. verb To unexpectedly recall or re-experience something from the past. That particular smell always makes me flash back to my childhood.

3. noun An instance in which someone recalls or re-experiences something from the past. In this usage, the phrase is usually written as one word. That particular smell always makes me have a momentary childhood flashback.

See also: back, flash

flashback Friday

A social media phenomenon in which older pictures (such as childhood photos) are posted on Friday with the phrase (often abbreviated "FBF") as an accompanying hashtag or caption. I'm going to post my second grade class picture for flashback Friday! Me at my senior prom! #flashbackFriday

flash back (to someone or something)

to return briefly to a view of someone or something in the past. (In films, literature, and television.) The story suddenly flashed back to Tom when he was a child. The story flashed back to Tom's childhood.

See also: back, flash

flash back (to someone or something)

See also: back, flash

flash back

1. To undergo a change of scene to a previous point in time as a narrative device: In this chapter, the main character flashes back to her youth.

2. To remember or reexperience a previous point in time, usually suddenly: Whenever he hears sirens, he flashes back to his service in Vietnam.

See also: back, flash

flashback

n. a memory of the past; a portrayal of the past in a story. Suddenly, Fred had a wonderful flashback to his childhood.

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Weaving elegant description and deeply disturbing imagery, Flashback Hotel is a remarkable collection of short stories that destroy the barriers between reality and fantasy, exposing the struts and bones beneath each suburban street.

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Ghada Chehaibar, a veteran creative director who attended the event, said, "The golden age of Broummana is coming back," noting however that Flashback doesn't mean retro.

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Whether educating an audience, annotating a webcast, creating a tutorial, demonstrating a product, or making a screencast for friends or your social network, BB FlashBack 4 now comes with a number of new tools that simplify the creative workflow to help movie makers deliver engaging content - faster and easier than ever before.

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The Flashback malware first appeared in September 2011, and tricked users into downloading it by appearing to be an Adobe Flash Player plug-in installer.

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The good news is that the CVE-2012-0507 vulnerability will have been patched by many users in the aftermath of Flashback's publicity spike; the bad news is that vulnerability is recent enough that some won't have patched it at all.

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The Flashback software, also known as "Flashfake", advertises itself for download on infected websites as a Java software add-on or applet, experts said.

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Barona Resort and Casino, a US-based hotel and casino company, has announced Flashback Fridays.

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"I felt I really needed to take the opportunity to have a couple scenes where in flashback they're kissing, in flashback she's fondling her breasts, she's undoing her shirt," Carlton explains.

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"With my own children growing quickly before my eyes, I have wanted to do a flashback series like this for a while," said Libenson in a statement.

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The established range of ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001 Super 66, 78 and 90 Flashback Arrestors from Witt, the gas safety, control, mixing and analysis equipment supplier have now been successfully tested and approved to EN 730 standard for use with ethylene.