
English word flashback comes from English back, English flash
back (English)
A ferryboat.. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.. (figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.. (mining) The roof of a horizontal [...]
flash (English)
(engineering) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.. A pool. (ambitransitive, informal) To briefly, and in most cases inadvertently, expose one's naked body or underwear, or part of it, in public. (Contrast streak.). (computing) To write to the memory of an updatable [...]
flashback (English)
(psychology) a vivid mental image of a past trauma, especially one that recurs. A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative. A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug. The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system (intransitive) To undergo a flashback; to experience a vivid [...]