Flash
Flash verb - To shoot forth bursts of light.
Refer
Refer verb - To have a relation or connection.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- One episode of Absolutely Fabulous had Patsy locked in a steamy affair with an important man (possibly a cabinet minister), leading the tabloids to hound her and refer to her as a "flash fash slag."
Source: Tabloid Melodrama - Inverted in The Court Of The Air, where the inhabitants of Middlesteel use the term "flash mob" to refer to street gangs.
Source: Have A Gay Old Time / Literature -
Shining Armor and Cadance as well, the former not caring that Flash didn't refer to his sister with her proper title. O.O.C.
Cite this Source
Refer and Flash. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/flash/refer
Flash & Refer. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/flash/refer>.
Refer or Flash. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/flash/refer.
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