ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Flashfic

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Flashfic is a noun meaning (uncountable, fandom slang) Flash fiction.

Meaning

(uncountable, fandom slang) Flash fiction.

More Meanings

  1. (countable, fandom slang) An individual work of flash fiction, especially a fanfic.

Example Sentences

This feels like a flashfic, one of those teensy-weensy short stories that leaves you gasping in just five or six sentences.
(Though, not to nit pick^([sic]) but it isn't a drabble; they're 100 words, excluding title; this is a short fic, flashfic, ficlet...whatever )
According to a fanfiction tale's length, we can find the drabble (text up to 110 words), the flashfic (between 111 and 500 words) and the one piece, or one shot (more than 500 words).
Anti-illusionist metalepsis is acceptable under certain circumstances, however, as we can see in the NCIS and Due South flashfic self-insertion challenges (malnpudl 2007; china_shop 2008).

Word Forms

Synonyms for flashfic

Depending on context, synonyms include microfiction, drabble, spamfic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shortfic, fanfic, songfic, babyfic, deathfic, badfic.

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