flash flood

1. 1.

   a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration

   Synonymsflashflood

   Broaderflood

   Narrowerfloodhead

Questions about flash flood

What does flash flood mean?

flash flood means "a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration".

What is another word for flash flood?

Close synonyms include flashflood. 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 flood a common word?

flash flood 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.