flaggings

Noun

flagging (countable and uncountable, plural flaggings)

1. A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.
2. The process by which something flags or tires.
   • That secret intoxication of pleasure, with all those transient flushings of guilt and joy, which the poet represents in our first parents upon their eating the forbidden fruit, to those flaggings of spirit, damps of sorrow, and mutual accusations which succeed it […]1712 April 22 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, April 12, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 351; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New...
3. The skewing or bending of the upper part of a television picture due to imperfect synchronization of the video signal.
   • Because older TVs are not able to respond quickly enough to the horizontal time-base errors introduced from the VCR, a VCR connected to an older TV may cause severe bending or flagging at the top of the picture yet appear to operate normally on a newer TV set.1998, Robert Brenner, Gregory Capelo, VCR Troubleshooting and Repair, page 158
4. Use of a handkerchief code or analogous display to signal sexual interests.

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