strobe
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Shortening of stroboscope.
Noun [edit]
strobe (plural strobes)
- A stroboscopic lamp, a device used to produce regular flashes of light
Verb [edit]
strobe (third-person singular simple present strobes, present participle strobing, simple past and past participle strobed)
- To flash like a stroboscopic lamp.
- 1986, Sam Frank, Sex in the Movies
- Here was a blazingly erotic sex star par excellence as Travolta gyrated around that strobing disco dance floor like a cock-o'-the-walk.
- 1986, Sam Frank, Sex in the Movies
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Latin [edit]
Noun [edit]
strobe
- vocative singular of strobus