Overview of noun flash_back

The noun flashback has 2 senses

• flashback -- (a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story)


• flashback -- (an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier))

Overview of verb flash_back

The verb flash back has 1 sense

• cut back, flash back -- (return in time; "the film cut back to an earlier event in the story")