Flasher
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Flasher has multiple meanings:
- A person who displays his or her body in a form of indecent exposureIndecent exposureIndecent exposure is the deliberate exposure in public or in view of the general public by a person of a portion or portions of his or her body, in circumstances where the exposure is contrary to local moral or other standards of appropriate behavior. Indecent exposure laws vary in different...
(flashing genitals, breasts, buttocks, etc.) - Another name for a vehicle's turn signal, see automotive lighting#Turn signals
- A species of fishFishFish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
in the Lobotidae family - FlasherUSS Flasher (SS-249)USS Flasher was a Gato-class submarine which served in the Pacific during World War II. She received three Presidential Unit Citations and six battle stars, and sank 21 ships for a total of 100,231 tons of Japanese shipping....
(SS-249), a GatoGato class submarineThe United States Navy Gato class submarine formed the core of the submarine service that was largely responsible for the destruction of the Japanese merchant marine and a large portion of the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II...
-class submarineSubmarineA submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below the surface of the water. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability...
, commissioned in 1943 and stricken in 1959. - FlasherUSS Flasher (SSN-613)USS Flasher , a , was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the flasher, a member of the Lobotidae family of fishes, which have an unusual placement of the second dorsal and anal fins, posteriorly on the body, close to the tail.-Construction history:The contract to build her was...
(SSN-613), a Permit-class submarine, commissioned in 1966 and struck in 1992. - A shiny object or collection of shiny objects, suspended in the water column by spearfishersSpearfishingSpearfishing is an ancient method of fishing that has been used throughout the world for millennia. Early civilizations were familiar with the custom of spearing fish from rivers and streams using sharpened sticks....
to attract game fishGame fishGame fish are fish pursued for sport by recreational anglers. They can be freshwater or marine fish. Game fish can be eaten after being caught, though increasingly anglers practise catch and release to improve fish populations. Some game fish are also targeted commercially, particularly...
. - A person who creates works using Adobe FlashAdobe FlashAdobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...
- MC FlasherMC FlasherMC Flasher is the Electronic music persona of Slovenian-Canadian performance artist Simon Pribac.As a long time resident and art director of Slovenia's most famed club Ambasada Gavioli, MC FLASHER has been the developer of new wave techno MC-ing and the creator of Ambasada's ideological structure...
- Slovenian / Canadian electronic music artist, founder of the Final Flash City festival. - Flasher - Installation program for NokiaNokiaNokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...
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