flash back

1. 1.

   return in time

   “the film cut back to an earlier event in the story”

   Synonymscut back

   Broaderreturn

Questions about flash back

What does flash back mean?

flash back means "return in time".

What is another word for flash back?

Close synonyms include cut back. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flash back a common word?

flash back is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.