👉 Okay, let’s tackle that wonderfully prickly little squiggle of a word! Now, the undeniably bouncy and somewhat aggressively cheerful designation "…
newflash
…!" frankly just
screams
outdated news slang. Before we get into what exactly it means (and let me assure you, the meaning is as delightfully baffling as the actual timeframe in which this term was fashionable, circa 2013-ish - honestly, I feel a bit of a chill just saying that out loud. It feels…historical.)
Essentially, a "…newflash…" was a ridiculously insistent and somewhat desperate attempt to immediately telegraph news. Imagine the most frantic, slightly sweaty newsreader, practically vibrating into your phone screen, yelling: " NEW! FLASH!… cough cough… frankly this is pretty urgent… newflash…! ." Here’s what we basically mean by it, boiled down (and with a healthy pinch of bewildered shrug. Because honestly, nobody quite knows who officially decreed the whole thing was official.) Immediate Delivery: The core concept: you need to know now . It's that panicked insistence that the information is absolutely, positively happening right this instant and deserves your immediate attention! A Bit Overblown (Almost Certainly Due To A Typo): Let’s be brutally frank. Most of the time it was probably just a typo in the original news dispatch, someone slapping on a ridiculous urgency for effect that then
