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flasher
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It was your average London park, complete with flasher , park-keeper, geraniums, a bum-splintering see-saw and baby swings. ▪ Scarcely used is the compass, the flasher and the watch.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, "something that emits light in flashes," agent noun from flash (v.). Meaning "male genital exhibitionist" is from 1960s ( meat-flasher in this sense was attested in 1890s and flash (v.) in the sense "expose the genitals" is recorded by 1846). Johnson ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Flasher has multiple meanings: A person who displays his or her body in a form of indecent exposure (flashing genitals, breasts, buttocks, etc.), see Exhibitionism Another name for a vehicle's turn signal, see A name for the Atlantic tripletail fish Flasher, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Triple-tail \Tri"ple-tail`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) An edible fish ( Lobotes Surinamensis ) found in the warmer parts of all the oceans, and common on the southern and middle coasts of the United States. When living it is silvery gray, and becomes brown or blackish ...
Usage examples of flasher.
Bruno Mar-tinez tumbled out, leaving the emergency flasher on, grabbed the doorhandle, and thudded loudly into the locked door.
With the same motivation he brought the red flashers back to the center of the periscope screen.
Yeva protested, when she had seen them hovering too often over the flashers in the news section.
The mountain range was flanked and fronted by holopromos and subliminal pulsers, pyrotechnic flashers and computer-generated dramatizations of selected passages.
Jorge turned on their blue, red, and white flashers and eased across traffic onto the right-hand shoulder.
He threw the cruiser into park and, more out of habit than necessity, snapped on the lightbar flashers.
Ryan saw the two Seventh Squad plainclothesmen in the street about twenty yards away, and beyond them a squad car with its flashers spinning blocking the intersection and the cops getting out, hurrying this way.
After a volley into their rocket-laden trucks had put the Firelords off-balance, Flasher concentrated on the calliopes in firing positions on the lip of the escarpment.
I’ve seen everything from mobies to triunes to flashers to drillbits, and they don’t look like this.
In the past three years the district attorney had prosecuted or pled out eleven rapists, four aggravated sexual assaulters, three child molesters, three exhibitionists ('Hell, flashers, you mean.
An' till then you'll work your passage, an' I don't give two cents' worth of a Port Mahon sea-horse's droppings if you're Comber or Lord Harry Flasher or President Buchanan!
Darius engaged the emergency flashers, swung out of traffic just past the intersection, and stopped in a no-parking zone.
It had been reasonable to hope the signaling device was kept where a flasher or lantern might be seen from another island.
They followed the corridor through a few turns and came to a stretch where warning flashers blinked in their wall sockets, as they had been doing for centuries.