Definitions for the word, flash

(a.) Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.

(a.) Wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry.

(n.) A pool.

(n.) A preparation of capsicum, burnt sugar, etc., for coloring and giving a fictious strength to liquors.

(n.) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.

(n.) A sudden and brilliant burst, as of wit or genius; a momentary brightness or show.

(n.) A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; a momentary blaze; as, a flash of lightning.

(n.) Slang or cant of thieves and prostitutes.

(n.) The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period.

(n.) To strike and throw up large bodies of water from the surface; to splash.

(n.) To trick up in a showy manner.

(v. i.) To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary brilliancy; to come or pass like a flash.

(v. i.) To burst forth like a sudden flame; to break out violently; to rush hastily.

(v. i.) To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.

(v. t.) To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind.

(v. t.) To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different color. See Flashing, n., 3 (b).

(v. t.) To send out in flashes; to cause to burst forth with sudden flame or light.


18 words found in the Scrabble word, flash



Scrabble letter values
A is 1 points
B is 3 points
C is 3 points
D is 2 points
E is 1 points
F is 4 points
G is 2 points
H is 4 points
I is 1 points
J is 8 points
K is 5 points
L is 1 points
M is 3 points
N is 1 points
O is 1 points
P is 3 points
Q is 10 points
R is 1 points
S is 1 points
T is 1 points
U is 1 points
V is 4 points
W is 4 points
X is 8 points
Y is 4 points
Z is 10 points



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