strobe

Shortening of stroboscope.

strobe (plural strobes)

1. A stroboscopic lamp: a device used to produce regular flashes of light.
   • 2006, Michael Grecco, Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait, Amphoto Books, →ISBN, page 59:

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

strobe (third-person singular simple present strobes, present participle strobing, simple past and past participle strobed)

1. To flash like a stroboscopic lamp.
   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

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

   • 1986, Sam Frank, Sex in the Movies

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

• Boster, Stober, Tobers, besort, borest, sorbet, tobers

strobe

1. vocative singular of strobus