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flash
noun- a sudden onset of drug-induced effects US, 1946
- I didn’t get a flash, Cowboy. — Jack Gerber, The Connection, p. 75, 1957
- When a man fixes he is turned on almost instantaneously ... you can speak of a flash, a tinily murmured orgasm in the bloodstream, in the central nervous system. — Alexander Trocchi, Cain’s Book, pp. 33–34, 1960
- He’s gonna get a flash, let me tell you. — Richard Farina, Been Down So Long, p. 115, 1966
- Cocaine and bombitas are both stimulants and combined with heroin, a depressant, they produce an electrifying “rush” or “flash” far more pleasurable to the addict than heroin alone. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 36, 1966
- His last flash had been all about time, it had taken him down the passageway to the very door of the rose garden, but as he was about to go in the flash had started to wear off. — Gurney Norman, Divine Right’s Trip (Last Whole Earth Catalog), p. 123, 1971
- Effects of cocaine and to a lesser extent methedrine. — Home Office Glossary of Terms and Slang Common in Penal Establishments, July 1978
- No, Bob, really, this is good stuff, clears right up in the spoon, no residue, hair-raising flash. — Drugstore Cowboy, 1988
- LSD US
- — US Department of Justice, Street Terms,, October 1994
- Street names [...] dots, drops, flash, Gorbachovs[.] — James Kay and Julian Cohen, The Parents’ Complete Guide to Young People and Drugs, p. 141, 1998
- any central nervous system stimulant UK
- — Tom Hibbert, Rockspeak!, p. 61, 1983
- illicitly distilled alcohol UK
Used by British expatriates in Saudi Arabia. - — J.B Smith of Bath, 1981
- a revelation; an epiphany; a satori US, 1924
- You can get flashes all kinds of ways. I got a flash once when my parachute didn’t open. — Whole Earth Catalog, p. 116, 1971
- The fact that her fears were misplaced in this case meant less to me than the flash that Marion can’t get it together to walk into a restaurant in her home state. — Jeffrey Golden, Watermelon Summer, p. 40, 1971
- in a striptease show, the stripper’s entrance onto the stage US
- In succession as the Flash or entrance; the Parade or march across the stage, in full costume; the Tease or increasing removal of wearing apparel; and the limactic Strip or denuding down to the G-String[.] — Saturday Review of Literature, p. 28, 18 August 1945: “Take em off!”
- a large number of small-denomination banknotes with a large-denomination note showing, giving the impression of a great deal of money UK
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 52, 1996
- inexpensive, showy jewellery US, 1927
- Everybody in both worlds kissed your ass black and blue if you had flash and front. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 118, 1969
- an inexpensive carnival prize that is so appealing that people will spend great sums trying to win it US, 1927
- The prizes I used as “flash”–percolators, blankets, clocks–were also numbered. — Charles Hamilton, Men of the Underworld, p. 178, 1952
- Blue had dismantled the wheel and taken the flash dolls and stuffed animals off the back wall when the dapper hoodlums finished their counting. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Trick Baby, p. 98, 1969
- — Joe McKennon, Circus Lingo, p. 35, 1980
- — Gene Sorrows, All About Carnivals, p. 16, 1985: “Terminology”
- a suit of clothes US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 71, 1950
- the appearance of wealth or success US
- The money’s just for flash. You spend as little as you have to and bring the rest back. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Choirboys, p. 252, 1975
- a know-all UK
Used in borstals and detention centres. - — Home Office Glossary of Terms and Slang Common in Penal Establishments, July 1978
- in horse racing, a last-minute change in odds US
- — David W. Maurer, Argot of the Racetrack, p. 28, 1951
▶ bit of flash
ostentation, a superficial show UK- [H]e likes to put on a bit of flash, so he goes swimming up and down the King’s Road in his Chevvy convertible[.] — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 23, 1962
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