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flash up

flash up verb: to appear suddenly on a screen.

Verb

flash up (third-person singular simple present flashes up, present participle flashing up, simple past and past participle flashed up)

  1. (intransitive) To appear suddenly on a screen.
    • The word "ERROR" flashed up on the monitor, accompanied by a beeping sound.
    • The minutes ticked by - nine, eight, seven. The screens behind both goals flashed up images of Scotland fans and their 1000-yard stares. Six minutes to play and Frantzdy Pierrot rises above Grant Hanley and nuts one just wide.2026 June 14, Tom English, “Why Haiti v Scotland was antidote to the ills of world football”, in BBC Sport

Forms of flash up

third-person singular presentflashes up
present participleflashing up
past participleflashed up
pastflashed up

Questions about flash up

What does flash up mean?
Flash up means to appear suddenly on a screen.
What part of speech is flash up?
Flash up is a verb.
What is the past tense of flash up?
The past tense of flash up is flashed up.

Words near flash up in the dictionary

  1. flash suppressors
  2. flash test
  3. flash tests
  4. flash the ash
  5. flash the cash
  6. flash up
  7. flash weld
  8. flash welding
  9. flash-ball
  10. flash-balls
  11. flash-bang

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