Definitions
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- noun a more
luxurious form ofbackpacking with a largerbudget
Etymologies
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Examples
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For all, my story offers an on-the-ground look at "flashpacking," a popular European style of travel that involves hauling around a backpack but otherwise doing your trip a bit nicer than college-age hostel backpacking.
Simona Rabinovitch: Liver Donation, Break up, Led Author David Jedeikin to Wander the Rainbow Simona Rabinovitch 2011
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Their design and journalistic backgrounds combine to produce catchy copy – think ‘flashpacking’, ‘turbo-shandy man’ and ‘globesity’ – coolly, seductively styled.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Are you a tanorexic partial to a bit of flashpacking, but hate your cankles?
Reuters: Top News 2010
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LONDON - Are you a tanorexic partial to a bit of flashpacking, but hate your cankles?
London Free Press 2010
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Are you a tanorexic partial to a bit of flashpacking, but hate your cankles?
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010
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Upgraded to an air con room after sweating it in a tent for the night (joining the flashpacking crew).
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Upgraded to an air con room after sweating it in a tent for the night (joining the flashpacking crew).
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Upgraded to an air con room after sweating it in a tent for the night (joining the flashpacking crew).
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Much like "staycations" of last year, flashpacking is simply a marketing term to encapsulate a growing traveler trend.
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B&Bs can also be a good option for the flashpacking set.
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