flashpoint
f lash paw int
- n point at which something is ready to blow up
- n the lowest temperature at which the vapor of a combustible liquid can be ignited in air
- Her pictures often seemed like snapshots raised to flashpoint and their intention seemed to me to reinsert the freakish back into the quotidian, to make us see the human normality .
- Now, in the wake of Barack Obama's use of the saying and the McCainPalin attacks against him over it, "putting lipstick on a pig" has become the latest flashpoint in the .
- An Iraqi boy holds a leaflet in broken English that reads "Fallujah, the cemetery of the Americans," as people celebrate near a burning car in the flashpoint town of Fallujah, 50 .