Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A device that automatically switches an electric lamp off and on, as in a commercial display sign.
  • noun Slang One who engages in indecent exposure; an exhibitionist.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as flusher.
  • noun One who or that which flashes.
  • noun Specifically One who makes a show of more wit than he possesses.
  • noun A hot boiler into which water is injected in small quantities and flashed into steam by the heat.
  • noun A rower.
  • noun In ichth, an acanthopterygian fish, the tripletail, Lobotes surinamensis, of the family Lobotidæ (which see); any lobotid.
  • noun A device for automatically lighting and extinguishing incandescent lamps or groups of lamps: used especially in the operation of electric advertising-signs.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, flashes.
  • noun A man of more appearance of wit than reality.
  • noun A large sparoid fish of the Atlantic coast and all tropical seas (Lobotes Surinamensis).
  • noun The European red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio); -- called also flusher.
  • noun An exhibitionist{1}, especially a male, who briefly exposes his private parts in a public place.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Anything that flashes, especially a device that switches a light on and off.
  • noun slang A person who exposes their genitals or female nipples.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an electrical device that automatically turns a lamp on and off (as for an advertising display)
  • noun someone with a compulsive desire to expose the genitals
  • noun a light that flashes on and off; used as a signal or to send messages

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

flash + -er

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Examples

  • "A lot of times, it's evidence that will take you to your next step in the investigative lead, so it will tell us who this person has been in touch with or who they've been emailing or texting," said Richard Mislan, Ph. D., a cyber-forensic researcher at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. To help dig up digital evidence and catch criminals, cyber-forensic researchers use a device called a flasher box.

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  • "A lot of times, it's evidence that will take you to your next step in the investigative lead, so it will tell us who this person has been in touch with or who they've been emailing or texting," said Richard Mislan, Ph. D., a cyber-forensic researcher at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. To help dig up digital evidence and catch criminals, cyber-forensic researchers use a device called a flasher box.

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  • "A lot of times, it's evidence that will take you to your next step in the investigative lead, so it will tell us who this person has been in touch with or who they've been emailing or texting," said Richard Mislan, Ph. D., a cyber-forensic researcher at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. To help dig up digital evidence and catch criminals, cyber-forensic researchers use a device called a flasher box.

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  • It's always an awkward moment when a toddler enters his "flasher" phase.

    Scott Brown: Mark Sanford: Reality Television Superstar 2009

  • This kind of flasher, along with most animated and large signage along Route 66 in Albuquerque was eliminated as a result of LadyBird Johnson's "beautify America" campaign.

    Albloggerque johnny_mango 2005

  • New Yorkers get ready for the Ford "flasher" express.

    CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2004 2004

  • I genuinely thought it was a female "flasher" or a take off for a pole dancer.

    Evening Standard - Home 2010

  • According to police reports, Ms. Cole was exposed to a 'flasher' who exposed his private parts during a dinner engagement at

    TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page 2010

  • Ms Forrester said Hemer would regularly use the internet to google Crime Stoppers to check on police information, go online for local newspapers and type in key words such as "flasher",

    National Nine News 2010

  • So, all of this left us with the "flasher" plug sitting on the console in the jeep when my son took me to lunch today.

    Parenting Teens 2009

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