newsflash

• news flash

From news +‎ flash.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnuzˌflæʃ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æʃ

newsflash (plural newsflashes)

1. (broadcasting) A brief media report of something that has recently taken place.

   Synonyms: breaking news, (dated) bulletin, flash, snap, update

   Television programmes were interrupted by a newsflash announcing that the Prime Minister had resigned.

• Muppet News Flash

newsflash

1. (colloquial, often sarcastic) Introduces an obvious fact of which the person addressed is ostensibly not aware.

   Synonyms: bulletin, hello

   • 2019, Rob Lipsett, The Rob Lipsett Game Plan:

     In the 1980s we thought that fat was the root of all evil, but now people are saying that insulin is what is making us fat or that we should eat paleo, like our prehistoric friends (um, newsflash: most people in the Paleolithic era died from starvation).