flashbulb
f lash buhlb
- n a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
- A flashbulb's white glare froze a busy scene against the black of a tropic night on the Gulf of Panama, in the Pacific.
- Alan Nierob, a publicist whose flashbulb-bait clients include Mel Gibson and Russell Crowe, says he can't imagine one.
- Experts have a name for this phenomenon: flashbulb memory.