Crossword clues for flasher
flasher
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 when dead. Its dorsal and anal fins are long, and extend back on each side of the tail. It has large silvery scales which are used in the manufacture of fancy work. Called also, locally, black perch, grouper, and flasher.
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 (1755) has it also in the sense "one who makes a show of more wit than he possesses."
Wiktionary
n. 1 Anything that flashes, especially a device that switches a light on and off. 2 # (context automotive English) An indicator or turn signal. 3 (context slang English) A person who exposes their genitals or female nipples.
WordNet
n. someone with a compulsive desire to expose the genitals [syn: exhibitionist]
an electrical device that automatically turns a lamp on and off (as for an advertising display)
a light that flashes on and off; used as a signal or to send messages [syn: blinker]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 155
Land area (2000): 0.698469 sq. miles (1.809026 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.009061 sq. miles (0.023468 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.707530 sq. miles (1.832494 sq. km)
FIPS code: 26660
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 46.454942 N, 101.232920 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Flasher
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, North Dakota, a community in the United States
- USS Flasher (SS-249), a Gato-class submarine, commissioned in 1943 and stricken in 1959.
- USS Flasher (SSN-613), a Permit-class submarine, commissioned in 1966 and struck in 1992.
- A shiny object or collection of shiny objects, suspended in the water column by spearfishers to attract game fish.
- A person who creates works using Adobe Flash
- MC Flasher - Slovenian / Canadian electronic music artist, founder of the Final Flash City festival.
- Flasher - Installation program for Nokia Internet Tablets
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.