From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Arts, Chemistry, Literature, Film, Theatreflashbackflash‧back /ˈflæʃbæk/ noun1[countable, uncountable]A a scene in a film, play, book etc that shows something that happened before that point in the storyThe events of the hero’s childhood are shown as a series of flashbacks.2[countable]REMEMBER a sudden very clear memory of something that happened to you in the pastEaton still has flashbacks of the crash.3[countable] an occasion when someone has the same bad feeling that they had when they took an illegaldrug in the pastMany users of this drug experience flashbacks.4[countable] technicalHC a burninggas or liquid that moves back into a tube or containerExamples from the Corpusflashback• A constantmotif is a flashback to a field of wheat, interposed suddenly and incongruously in various scenes.• Many users of this drug experience chronicdepression and flashbacks.• In the middle, we get an extendedflashback of the four as girls in the summer of 1970.• I have had my first flashback.• Only vaguely, in one or two frozenflashback memories, could he recall his father.• We weave the old show in so well with the flashbacks.has flashbacks• He says approachingbends he's worried because he has flashbacks of some one losing control and crashing into him.