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flashlights

flashlights is the plural of flashlight.

flashlights is the third-person singular simple present indicative of flashlight.

Meaning of flashlight

Noun

flashlight (plural flashlights)

  1. (Canada, Philippines, US) A battery-powered hand-held light source.
    • I shone my flashlight on the strange inscription.
  2. A flashgun (device used to create flashes of light for photography).
    • He sat in an arm-chair with his forefinger to his temple, and when the photographer's flashlight went off, he hoped that the hotel had caught fire and that this would end it all.1943, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XIII, in Gideon Planish, London: Jonathan Cape, page 121
  3. (obsolete) A photograph taken with a flash camera.

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Questions about flashlights

What is flashlights the plural of?
Flashlights is the plural of flashlight.

Words near flashlights in the dictionary

  1. flashlight fishes
  2. flashlighted
  3. flashlightfish
  4. flashlightfishes
  5. flashlighting
  6. flashlights
  7. flashlike
  8. flashline
  9. flashlines
  10. flashlit
  11. flashly

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