flasher
Americannoun
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a person or thing that flashes.
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a flashing light operated by a switching device that automatically turns it on and off alternately.
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a signal light on an automotive vehicle that can be made to flash, as to indicate the intention of making a turn or to call attention to a vehicle that has slowed or stopped in a hazardous place.
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the switching device that operates such a light.
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Slang. a person, especially a man, who exposes the genitals suddenly, and usually briefly, in public.
noun
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something that flashes, such as a direction indicator on a vehicle
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slang a person who indecently exposes himself
Etymology
Origin of flasher
Example Sentences
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Subtle flasher systems in a window and near a bumper.
From Washington Post • May 23, 2022
Black bass are good on topwater, and flasher baits.
From Washington Times • May 6, 2020
She also recalls being handed a whistle at Columbia University library after reports of a flasher lurking among the shelves, a precaution she finds hysterical today.
From The Guardian • Mar. 3, 2019
John Oliver wants to get tough on crime, or as he calls it “that thing that was almost solved by a flasher dog in the 1980s.”
From Time • Oct. 2, 2017
Bruno Martinez tumbled out, leaving the emergency flasher on, grabl>ed the doorhandle, and thudded loudly into the locked door.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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