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Jewish flag

Jewish flag noun: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Jewish, flag.

Noun

Jewish flag (plural Jewish flags)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Jewish, flag.
    • Jews in Palestine have appealed for the right to form a separate Jewish Army under a Jewish flag. This community, built up by the toil and sacrifice of decades is now in mortal danger and, as freemen everywhere, have not only the[…]1944, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs, Jewish National Home in Palestine: Hearings Before the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Seventy-Eighth Congress...
    • The combination of blue and white as the colors of the Jewish flag was derived from an 1860 poem (“Judah's Colors”) by Austrian Ludwig August Frankl, which explained that the blue symbolized “the splendors of the firmament,” and the[…]2010 January 1, Ronald L. Eisenberg, Jewish Traditions: A JPS Guide, Jewish Publication Society, →ISBN, page 577
  2. (US, ethnic, slang, slur) A dollar bill.
    • Four Jewish flags I blow, four lovely bucks.1921, Adventure, volume 28, numbers 1-3, page 129

Forms of Jewish flag

pluralJewish flags

Origin of Jewish flag

Sense 2 alludes to the stereotype of Jews as money-grubbing.

Questions about Jewish flag

What does Jewish flag mean?
Jewish flag means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Jewish, flag.
What part of speech is Jewish flag?
Jewish flag is a noun.
What is the plural of Jewish flag?
The plural of Jewish flag is Jewish flags.

Words near Jewish flag in the dictionary

  1. Jewish Bolshevism
  2. Jewish calendar
  3. Jewish champagne
  4. Jewish colony
  5. Jewish English
  6. Jewish flag
  7. Jewish flags
  8. Jewish hereness
  9. Jewish lightning
  10. Jewish Literary Aramaic
  11. Jewish nose

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