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Vinony

strobe

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /stɹəʊb/ / /stɹoʊb/

noun

Etymology: Shortening of stroboscope.

  1. A stroboscopic lamp: a device used to produce regular flashes of light.

    “White all light sources illuminate the subject, the strobe both illuminates and "freezes" the subject.”

  2. An electronic signal in hardware indicating that a value is ready to be read.

    “a memory strobe; a data strobe”

verb

Etymology: Shortening of stroboscope.

  1. To flash like a stroboscopic lamp.

    “... as they fuck she quakes, body strobing miles beneath him in cream and night-blue, all sound suppressed, eyes in crescents behind gold lashes...”

    “Here was a blazingly erotic sex star par excellence as Travolta gyrated around that strobing disco dance floor like a cock-o'-the-walk.”