gunflash

Etymology

From gun + flash.

gunflash means the flash of a (naval, artillery, tank or hand) gun firing. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

noun

The flash of a (naval, artillery, tank or hand) gun firing.“He picked them out, remembering how he had stared at them every day for a week, trying to pick up the Vichy gunflashes but seeing nothing but the bare heat-shimmering hills; remembering how in the night you could see the gunflashes ...”