shoulder flash

1. 1.

   something worn on the shoulder of a military uniform as an emblem of a division etc.

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   United Kingdom

Questions about shoulder flash

What does shoulder flash mean?

shoulder flash means "something worn on the shoulder of a military uniform as an emblem of a division etc.".

Is shoulder flash a common word?

shoulder flash 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.