flashlight battery

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   a small dry battery containing dry cells; used to power flashlights

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Questions about flashlight battery

What does flashlight battery mean?

flashlight battery means "a small dry battery containing dry cells; used to power flashlights".

Is flashlight battery a common word?

flashlight battery 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.