"flash up" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flashes up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flashing up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flashed up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flashed up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "flash up (third-person singular simple present flashes up, present participle flashing up, simple past and past participle flashed up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              17,
              27
            ]
          ],
          "text": "The word \"ERROR\" flashed up on the monitor, accompanied by a beeping sound.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              74,
              84
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2026 June 14, Tom English, “Why Haiti v Scotland was antidote to the ills of world football”, in BBC Sport:",
          "text": "The minutes ticked by - nine, eight, seven. The screens behind both goals flashed up images of Scotland fans and their 1000-yard stares. Six minutes to play and Frantzdy Pierrot rises above Grant Hanley and nuts one just wide.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To appear suddenly on a screen."
      ],
      "id": "en-flash_up-en-verb-u3eRQEBF",
      "links": [
        [
          "appear",
          "appear"
        ],
        [
          "screen",
          "screen"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To appear suddenly on a screen."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "flash up"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flashes up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flashing up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flashed up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flashed up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "flash up (third-person singular simple present flashes up, present participle flashing up, simple past and past participle flashed up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              17,
              27
            ]
          ],
          "text": "The word \"ERROR\" flashed up on the monitor, accompanied by a beeping sound.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              74,
              84
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2026 June 14, Tom English, “Why Haiti v Scotland was antidote to the ills of world football”, in BBC Sport:",
          "text": "The minutes ticked by - nine, eight, seven. The screens behind both goals flashed up images of Scotland fans and their 1000-yard stares. Six minutes to play and Frantzdy Pierrot rises above Grant Hanley and nuts one just wide.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To appear suddenly on a screen."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "appear",
          "appear"
        ],
        [
          "screen",
          "screen"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To appear suddenly on a screen."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "flash up"
}