flasher

From flash + -er.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈflæʃɚ/

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• Rhymes: -æʃə(ɹ)

flasher (plural flashers)

1. Anything that flashes, especially a device that switches a light on and off.
2. (automotive) An indicator or turn signal.
   • 2019, Abby Chava Stein, Becoming Eve, Seal Press, page 13:

     Look here, look at this fire truck! It has flashers and sirens, and if you push the button at the bottom, it moves by itself.

3. (obsolete) Someone of great accomplishments, or brilliant appearance.
   • 1795 March 17, Hester Piozzi, Thraliana:

     Mr Yorke of D'Affrenalli has been introduced to me as a Wit & a Flasher: it was supposed that we were to admire one another's Abilities,—but I fancy the Project failed on both Sides […] .

4. (slang) Someone who exposes themselves indecently; someone who ‘flashes’ their genitals.
   • 1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 128:

     The only diversions I recall were a pair of Avocets flying over, and a young lady who regularly each afternoon furtively crept into the dunes [...] and crouched down for a clandestine wee! Either that, or she was a very shy flasher.

• (person): exhibitionist

• halfers, reflash

From English flash.

• IPA^(key): /fla.ʃe/

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• Homophone: flache

flasher

1. to flash (of a light, to have intermittent periods on and off)
2. to flash (of a camera, to use flash photography)
3. to take photographs using a flash

   Des touristes épars flashaient à tout va. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

4. (transport) to flash (to catch a speeding vehicle on camera)
5. (colloquial) to have a crush, become infatuated

   Synonyms: avoir le coup de foudre, craquer

• “flasher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• “flasher”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse