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flashers

flashers is the plural of flasher.

Meaning of flasher

Noun

flasher (plural flashers)

  1. Anything that flashes, especially a device that switches a light on and off.
  2. An indicator or turn signal.
    • Look here, look at this fire truck! It has flashers and sirens, and if you push the button at the bottom, it moves by itself.2019, Abby Chava Stein, Becoming Eve, Seal Press, page 13
  3. (obsolete) Someone of great accomplishments, or brilliant appearance.
    • Mr Yorke of D'Affrenalli has been introduced to me as a Wit & a Flasher: it was supposed that we were to admire one another's Abilities,—but I fancy the Project failed on both Sides […].1795 March 17, Hester Piozzi, Thraliana
  4. (slang) Someone who exposes themselves indecently; someone who ‘flashes’ their genitals.
    • The only diversions I recall were a pair of Avocets flying over, and a young lady who regularly each afternoon furtively crept into the dunes [...] and crouched down for a clandestine wee! Either that, or she was a very shy flasher.1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 128

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Noun capitalized: Flashers

Flashers

  1. (plural) plural of Flasher

Questions about flashers

What is flashers the plural of?
Flashers is the plural of flasher.
What part of speech is flashers?
Flashers is a noun.

Words near flashers in the dictionary

  1. flashed over
  2. flashed the ash
  3. flashed the cash
  4. flashed up
  5. flasher
  6. flashers
  7. flashes
  8. flashes around
  9. flashes back
  10. flashes in the pan
  11. flashes over

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