FLASH BACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flash back mean? 

• FLASH BACK (verb)
  The verb FLASH BACK has 1 sense:

1. return in time

  Familiarity information: FLASH BACK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLASH BACK (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Return in time

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

cut back; flash back

Context example:

the film cut back to an earlier event in the story

Hypernyms (to "flash back" is one way to...):

return (go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

flashback (a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story)