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flashtube

American  
[flash-toob, -tyoob] / ˈflæʃˌtub, -ˌtyub /
Or flash tube

noun

Photography.

  1. electronic flash.

Etymology

Origin of flashtube

First recorded in 1940–45; flash + tube

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Pratt and his wife, Heidi Montag, are a couple whose bond was forged in the crucible of a paparazzo’s flashtube.

From The New Yorker

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