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say it: FLASH-bak
flashback is a noun meaning "a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
literature
an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for flashback come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.