gunflash
gunflash noun: the flash of a (naval, artillery, tank or hand) gun firing.
Noun
gunflash (plural gunflashes)
- The flash of a (naval, artillery, tank or hand) gun firing.
- He picked them out, remembering how he had stared at them every day for a week, trying to pick up the Vichy gunflashes but seeing nothing but the bare heat-shimmering hills; remembering how in the night you could see the gunflashes ...1947, As You Were, page 18
- Then the German guns suddenly went off with one or two gunflashes faintly visible to the side of the smoke-screen. The Russians got ready to answer. Somewhere high up, a German shell whined, harmlessly, like a mosquito.2014, Alexander Werth, Leningrad, 1943: Inside a City Under Siege, page 44
Forms of gunflash
| plural | gunflashes |
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Origin of gunflash
From gun + flash.
Questions about gunflash
- What does gunflash mean?
- Gunflash means the flash of a (naval, artillery, tank or hand) gun firing.
- What part of speech is gunflash?
- Gunflash is a noun.
- What is the plural of gunflash?
- The plural of gunflash is gunflashes.
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