Flash

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Flash may refer to:

Places

• Flash, Staffordshire, England, a village
• The Flash (lake), a lake near Borras, Wales

People

Nickname

• Dwyane Wade (born 1982), American basketball player
• Gabriel Elorde (1935–1985), Filipino professional boxer
• Flash Hollett (1911–1999), Canadian ice hockey defenceman
• Larry "Flash" Jenkins (born 1955), American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter

Stage or ring name

• Flash (wrestler) (born 1957), masked professional wrestler
• Adam Flash (born 1971), American professional wrestler
• DJ Flash (born 1957), American DJ
• Grandmaster Flash (born 1958), American hip hop musician and DJ
• Flash Terry (1934–2004), American guitarist and singer
• Lee Young-ho (born 1992), South Korean professional Starcraft player also known as "Flash"

Surname

• George Flash (1909–1990), Israeli politician
• Richard Flash (born 1976), English footballer
• Sandy Flash (died 1778), highwayman

Arts and entertainment

Comics

• The Flash (comic book), ongoing comic book featuring the titular DC Comics hero
• Flash Comics, a 1940s anthology comic book

Fictional characters

• Flash (comics), several speedy DC Comics superheroes
  • Flash (Jay Garrick), the first superhero
  • Flash (Barry Allen), the second superhero
  • Flash (Wally West), the first Kid Flash
  • Flash (Bart Allen), the second Kid Flash
• Flash (Dukes of Hazzard), Sheriff Rosco's dog in The Dukes of Hazzard
• Flash (G.I. Joe), a character in the G.I. Joe universe
• Flash (Transformers), a member of the Turbomasters
• Flash Gordon, the titular hero of science fiction comic strip
• Flash Thompson, a Marvel comic book character
• Flash, a character in the 2003 comedy film Daddy Day Care

Film

• Flash (1997 film), a Disney Channel television film
• Flash (2004 film), an American film starring Amanda Loncar
• Flash (2007 film), a Malayalam suspense thriller
• The Flash (film), a 2018 American superhero film

Gaming

• Flash (pinball), a 1979 Williams pinball game designed by Steve Ritchie
• The Flash (video game), a 1991 action video game
• Teen patti or Flash, a three-card poker-style game, popular in South Asia
• Flash, a speed class in the Wipeout video game series

Literature

• Flash (novel), a 2004 science fiction novel by L. E. Modesitt

Music

Artists

• Flash (band), a 1970s progressive rock group

Albums and EPs

• Flash (Amoyamo album) (2013)
• Flash (EP), a 2010 extended play album by Crystal Kay
• Flash (Jeff Beck album) (1985)
• Flash (Electric Food album) (1970)
• Flash (Moving Sidewalks album) (1968)
• Flash (Towa Tei album) (2005)

Songs and singles

• Flash (B.B.E. song), from the album Games (1997)
• "Flash" (Iggy Azalea song), from the EP Glory (2012)
• "Flash" (Queen song), a song on Queen's album Flash Gordon (1980)
• "Flash" (Stéphanie song), a song on Princess Stéphanie of Monaco's album Besoin (1986)
• "Flashes" (song), a composition by Bix Beiderbecke

Periodicals

• Flash (newspaper), a community newspaper of Auckland City, New Zealand

Television

• Flash (Chuck), how Chuck retrieves data in the TV series Chuck
• The Flash (1990 TV series), a 1990 American superhero series
• The Flash (2014 TV series), a 2014 American superhero series

Military

• M202 FLASH, a rocket launcher
• Operation Flash, a May 1995 Croatian Army offensive in Western Slavonia
• Tactical recognition flash, a coloured patch worn on the arm of combat clothing to distinguish their regiment or corps

Science and technology

• Flash (manufacturing), an excess material attached to a moulded product along a parting line
• Flash (photography), instantaneous illumination for picture taking
• Adobe Flash (formerly Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash), multimedia platform software
• Flash memory, a kind of non-volatile computer memory
• Flash!, the bundled graphics package for the SAM Coupé

Sports

• Flash (juggling), a type of throwing and catching
• Delaware 87ers, originally the Utah Flash, an NBA Development League team
• Flash Engineering, a Swedish motorsports team
• Flash Stakes, a former Thoroughbred horse race
• Kent State Golden Flashes or just the Flashes, the athletics teams of Kent State University
• Las Vegas Flash, an inline hockey team in 1994
• Monterrey Flash, a Mexican indoor soccer team formed in 2011
• Rochester Flash, a former American Soccer League team
• San Diego Flash, a soccer team based in San Diego, California
• Western New York Flash, an American women’s soccer franchise

Transportation

• Flash Airlines, a private charter airline operating out of Cairo, Egypt
• Tilbury Flash, an American racing monoplane built in the 1930s

Other uses

• Flash (cleaning product), the UK name of Mr. Clean
• Flash (tattoo), a source pattern for body art
• Flash, to expose a person's private parts to another person in exhibitionism
• Flash, a lightning bolt symbol, for example in Flash and Circle

See also

• Flash Flash Flash, the first full-length album from The Explosion
• Flashing (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Flash"
• All pages with titles containing "Flash"