flashgun

[ flash-guhn ]

nounPhotography.
  1. a device that simultaneously discharges a flashbulb and operates a camera shutter.

Origin of flashgun

1
First recorded in 1925–30; flash + gun1

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How to use flashgun in a sentence

  • You'd never settle the argument, unless you could put a camera and a flash gun on a whale and get an instrument-report from it.

    Creatures of the Abyss | Murray Leinster

British Dictionary definitions for flash gun

flash gun

noun
  1. a type of electronic flash, attachable to or sometimes incorporated in a camera, that emits a very brief flash of light when the shutter is open

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