"flash around" meaning in All languages combined

See flash around on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: flashes around [present, singular, third-person], flashing around [participle, present], flashed around [participle, past], flashed around [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} flash around (third-person singular simple present flashes around, present participle flashing around, simple past and past participle flashed around)
  1. (transitive, colloquial) To make an ostentatious show of; to show to everybody in a boastful manner. Tags: colloquial, transitive Synonyms: flaunt

Inflected forms

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