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  • noun Plural form of flashpacker.

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Examples

  • And although we are backpacking, we've found a better word to describe us: flashpackers.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

  • Travelers and flashpackers went crazy over the new Kindle 2 when it was released earlier this year (including who took a Kindle on his 4-month trip).

    Travel Gear Blog 2009

  • Travelers and flashpackers went crazy over the new Kindle 2 when it was released earlier this year (including who took a Kindle on his 4-month trip).

    Travel Gear Blog 2009

  • Hostel common rooms are no longer places of social interaction, rather rooms where flashpackers can use free WIFI on their laptops to keep in touch with everyone via Facebook.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2008

  • Hostel common rooms are no longer places of social interaction, rather rooms where flashpackers can use free WIFI on their laptops to keep in touch with everyone via Facebook.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2008

  • Hostel common rooms are no longer places of social interaction, rather rooms where flashpackers can use free WIFI on their laptops to keep in touch with everyone via Facebook.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2008

  • Hostel common rooms are no longer places of social interaction, rather rooms where flashpackers can use free WIFI on their laptops to keep in touch with everyone via Facebook.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2008

  • Hostel common rooms are no longer places of social interaction, rather rooms where flashpackers can use free WIFI on their laptops to keep in touch with everyone via Facebook.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2008

  • Note that I could travel with a tiny 15″ laptop like most of my fellow “flashpackers”, but I opt for the powerful (and somewhat bulky) 17″ Dell XPS M1739 with 1900×1200 pixel screen, nicknamed the “Beast”, since it’s more of a portable desktop that will stay in the same place for 2 months at a time (my normal resting time) rather than a coffee-shop bound true laptop.

    The luxury of mobility « Musings from an overworked translator 2009

  • a hostel website geared for "flashpackers," upscale backpackers.

    The Seattle Times 2011

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