flash v.4
(UK black) to rush, to run away; also used trans. (see cite 1946).
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Clipper (Hobart, Tas.) 25 July 4/6: Get the city down and hold it, / Flashin round jest as they pleese, / That there game ain’t in the running / Nor by any means the cheese. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | N.Y. Amsterdam News 18 May 19: [She was] flashed off to a ‘hot’ flat where she was given the works. | |
| Scrambled Yeggs 117: Flash down there right now, give the boys at headquarters the whole works. | |
| White with Wire Wheels (1973) 216: I’ll flash over and see it. | |
| Paco’s Story (1987) 16: The senior class’s butter-headed peckerwood flashing around the locker room. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Scholar 217: Right now, I gotta flash man. I’m gonna go and see Sonnie. |
In phrases
(UK Und.) to run away, also as imper.
| Oxford Univ. & City Herald 1 Sept. 4/2: Mr. R. continued to call out ‘murder’ so loudly, that the whole neighbourhood were alarmed, when he heard a voice say, ‘flash it,’ (the slang phrase to be off). |
(W.I./Rasta) to push away.
![[WI]](/static/img/flags/wi.png "West Indies") | Dread Culture 131: Di Bwoy jook mi dung wid him .32 and hold on pon mi hand. Mi jus flash him off and pull out mi .45. |