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   flashback

   /ˈflaʃbak/

   noun

   • 1. a scene in a film, novel, etc. set in a time earlier than the main story: "in a series of flashbacks, we follow the pair through their teenage years"
   • ▪ a disturbing sudden vivid memory of an event in the past, typically as the result of psychological trauma or taking LSD.
   • 2. a flame moving rapidly back through a combustible vapour: "cooling the area prevented a flashback"

   verb

   • 1. move to a scene in a film, novel, etc. that is set in a time earlier than the main story: "we flashbacked to a pivotal, defining moment in his life"
   • ▪ experience a sudden vivid memory of an event in the past: "I flashbacked to the night we arrived here several years ago"

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