Gunflash
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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
More examples"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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