Flashlight

Definitions

1. A battery-powered hand-held light source.
   Canada, Philippines, US
2. A flashgun (device used to create flashes of light for photography).
3. A photograph taken with a flash camera.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“At school he used to do Dr. Jekyll turning into Mr. Hyde, shining a flashlight into his face⟳.”

“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.”

“[…] the flashlight exploded like⟳ a tiny bomb, making the Vicar jump⟳ a little, which explains why his face⟳ is a thankful blur, his deadly role forgotten to history (I have⟳ the photograph before me now).”

“[…] two or three bright flashlights went off close⟳ to us. It seemed that some prominent person was being quickly interviewed by reporters and photographed just before the ship left.”

CEFR level