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flag-waving

flag-waving noun: highly vocal and visible support given to a cause.

Noun

flag-waving (uncountable)

  1. Highly vocal and visible support given to a cause.
    • I soon discovered that nobody seemed to want Anzacs in spite of their flag-waving and yapping before we left[.]1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 122
  2. (dated) Undesirable horizontal skewing of frames in an analog video signal.
    • They eliminate picture rolls, tearing, flag waving, hue shift, skew error or color streaking.1973, Signals, volume 28, numbers 1-11, page 109
    • The picture may also show a horizontal jitter at the top left appearing as flag waving.1999, A. M. Dhake, TV and Video Engineering, page 497

Forms of flag-waving

alternative formflag waving
alternative formflagwaving

Origin of flag-waving

From flag + waving.

Questions about flag-waving

What does flag-waving mean?
Flag-waving means highly vocal and visible support given to a cause.
What part of speech is flag-waving?
Flag-waving is a noun.

Words near flag-waving in the dictionary

  1. flag-to-flag
  2. flag-wagger
  3. flag-waggers
  4. flag-waver
  5. flag-wavers
  6. flag-waving
  7. flagacious
  8. flagaries
  9. flagary
  10. flagball
  11. flagbearer

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