flashback

From flash +‎ back.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflæʃ.bæk/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: flash‧back

flashback (plural flashbacks)

1. (authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.

   Synonym: analepsis

2. (psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in the present, especially one that recurs.

   Coordinate term: reminiscence

3. A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
   • 1998, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (motion picture):

     Maude Lebowski: What do you do for recreation? / The Dude: Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.

4. The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system.
5. (databases) A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.
   • 2004, Kevin Loney, Oracle Database 10g The Complete Reference, page 497:

     As noted, that method provides limited support for multi-table flashbacks.

   • 2004, Gavin J. T. Powell, Carol McCullough-Dieter, Oracle SQL: Jumpstart with Examples, page xxv:

     […] less used and specialized types of queries, including composite queries, hierarchical queries, version flashbacks, and parallel queries.

• (flame): flashback arrestor
• antiflashback
• Vietnam flashback

• → German: Flashback
• → Spanish: flashback
• → Norwegian: flashback
• → Portuguese: flashback

flashback (third-person singular simple present flashbacks, present participle flashbacking, simple past and past participle flashbacked)

1. (intransitive) To undergo a flashback; to experience a vivid mental image from the past.

• flash back

• flashforward

• flashback (narrative) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• flashback (psychology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• backflash, half-backs, halfbacks

Borrowed from English flashback.

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: flash‧back

flashback m (plural flashbacks, diminutive flashbackje n)

1. flashback

• terugblik

• flash-back

Unadapted borrowing from English flashback.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɛʃˌbɛk/, /ˌflɛʃˈbɛk/
• Rhymes: -ɛk
• Hyphenation: flàsh‧back

flashback m (usually invariable, plural (dated) flashbacks)

1. flashback

• flashback in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Unadapted borrowing from English flashback.

flashback m (plural flashbacks)

1. (narratology) flashback (earlier event inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative)

Borrowed from English flashback.

flashback n (plural flashbackuri)

1. flashback

Unadapted borrowing from English flashback.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflaʃbak/ [ˈflaʃ.β̞ak]
• Rhymes: -aʃbak

flashback m (plural flashbacks)

1. flashback

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “flashback”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024