Definitions for flashback

Overview of noun flashback

The noun flashback has 2 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (1) flashback

(a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story)

2. flashback

(an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier))