Gunflash

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The flash of a (naval, artillery, tank or hand) gun firing.

    "He picked them out, remembering how he had stared at them every day for a week, trying to pick up the Vichy gunflashes but seeing nothing but the bare heat-shimmering hills; remembering how in the night you could see the gunflashes ..."

Example

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"He picked them out, remembering how he had stared at them every day for a week, trying to pick up the Vichy gunflashes but seeing nothing but the bare heat-shimmering hills; remembering how in the night you could see the gunflashes ..."

Etymology

From gun + flash.

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