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flasher
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a bright piece of metal used to attract fish to a lure or bait.
Quotations
1955
This was a fishing line almost as thick as a small clothes line and about one hundred fathoms long, equipped with two bent oblongs of nickel-plated metal, known as "flashers."
1961
Comfortably leading all other combinations as a Sun Derby prize-getter is the old herring dodger (flasher) and herring strip (or jack herring).