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Vietnam flashback

noun

Etymology

From Vietnam + flashback. Referencing veteran trauma from the Vietnam War

  1. inherited from *bʰeg-✻ — “to bend”
  2. inherited from *baką✻
  3. inherited from *bak✻
  4. inherited from bæc
  5. inherited from bak
  6. compounded as flashback — “flash + back”
  7. compounded as vietnam flashback — “Vietnam + flashback”

Definitions

  1. A flashback

    A flashback; a vivid mental image of a past trauma.

    • I lived in the kind of place where your neighbors are always having Vietnam flashbacks. And they’d never even been to Vietnam.

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