From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishflashpointflash‧point /ˈflæʃpɔɪnt/ noun [countable]1PLACEVIOLENTa place where trouble or violence might easily develop suddenly and be hard to controlHebron has been a flashpoint for years.2[usually singular] technicalTMT the lowest temperature at which a liquid such as oil will produce enough gas to burn if a flame is put near itExamples from the Corpusflashpoint• With food a more valuablecommodity here than gold, the port is a flashpoint between marauding gangs of looters and bandits.• During these years race became the culturalflashpoint, and most political careers were founded on a rhetoric of purity and exclusion.• Certain keyvariableshighlighted by Grant and Wallace correspond to those factors considered especially crucial by the flashpointsmodel.• Such variables are too specific to industrialrelations to be included in the flashpoints model of public disorder.