flasher

Examples

• All

• After several complaints, the neighborhood began to worry about the flasher spotted near the school.

• What are you, like the Gramercy Park flasher now?

  For a Good Time, Call... (2012)

• Oh, my God, we've got a flasher.

  Monkeybone (2001)

• There was a flasher loose in the stacks of Columbia University's Butler Library my senior year at Barnard.

  Fiction book (1999)

• There's been a sharp rise in the number of flashers arrested in cities that didn't paint diapers and bras on the Renaissance nudes we used.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The police are searching for a flasher who has been exposing himself in the park.

• Witnesses reported seeing a flasher near the subway entrance during the evening rush hour.

Synonyms

S

streaker

vsflasher

• Offensive

5 8.1

A person who runs naked in public as a joke or protest

is usually sexual and focuses on exposing genitals for excitement

E

exhibitionist

vsflasher

• Offensive

1 8.2

Someone who exposes their private parts in public for sexual pleasure

is less clinical and not necessarily driven by compulsion

M

mooner

vsflasher

• Offensive

9.9

A person who shows their bare bottom to make people laugh or surprise them

is sexual and exposes genitals rather than just buttocks

Antonyms

D

discretion

57 4.6

Ability to make careful choices and keep private things secret

M

modesty

15 3.8

Dressing or behaving to avoid attracting attention and not show off

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology