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flasher

/ˈflæʃɚ/noun

flasher is a noun meaning “Anything that flashes, especially a device that switches a light on and off” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-S-H-E-R and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flasher is flashers.

What does flasher mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Anything that flashes, especially a device that switches a light on and off.

  2. 2

    An indicator or turn signal.

  3. 3

    obsoleteSomeone of great accomplishments, or brilliant appearance.

  4. 4

    slangSomeone who exposes themselves indecently; someone who ‘flashes’ their genitals.

noun

as Flasher
  1. 1

    informalA software developer who uses the Flash multimedia technology.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce flasher?

  • US /ˈflæʃɚ/

Flasher has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-flasher.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of flasher

  • flashers plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is flasher?

Flasher appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 65,913th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Flasher in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense a person who exposes their genitals indecently:

LanguageWords
Frenchexhibitionniste

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does flasher come from?

From flash + -er.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).