(Canada, US, Philippines) A battery-powered hand-held light source.
At school he used to do Dr. Jekyll turning into Mr. Hyde, shining a flashlight into his face.
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A flashgun (device used to create flashes of light for photography).
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.
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(obsolete) A photograph taken with a flash camera.
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).
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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