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flagger

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flag

1  [flag] noun, verb, flagged, flag⋅ging.
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–noun
1. a piece of cloth, varying in size, shape, color, and design, usually attached at one edge to a staff or cord, and used as the symbol of a nation, state, or organization, as a means of signaling, etc.; ensign; standard; banner; pennant.
2. Ornithology. the tuft of long feathers on the legs of falcons and most hawks; the lengthened feathers on the crus or tibia.
3. Hunting. the tail of a deer or of a setter dog.
4. Journalism.
a. the nameplate of a newspaper.
b. masthead (def. 1).
c. the name of a newspaper as printed on the editorial page.
5. a tab or tag attached to a page, file card, etc., to mark it for attention.
6. Music. hook (def. 12a).
7. Movies, Television. a small gobo.
8. Usually, flags. the ends of the bristles of a brush, esp. a paintbrush, when split.
9. Computers. a symbol, value, or other means of identifying data of interest, or of informing later parts of a program what conditions earlier parts have encountered.
–verb (used with object)
10. to place a flag or flags over or on; decorate with flags.
11. to signal or warn (a person, automobile, etc.) with or as if with a flag (sometimes fol. by down): to flag a taxi; to flag down a passing car.
12. to communicate (information) by or as if by a flag.
13. to decoy, as game, by waving a flag or the like to excite attention or curiosity.
14. to mark (a page in a book, file card, etc.) for attention, as by attaching protruding tabs.
15. (of a brush) to split the ends of the bristles.
—Idiom
16. strike the flag,
a. to relinquish command, as of a ship.
b. to submit or surrender: His financial situation is growing worse, but he's not ready to strike the flag.
Also, strike one's flag.
Origin:
1475–85; perh. b. flap (n.) and fag 1 (n.) in obs. sense “flap”

Related forms:
flagger, noun
flagless, adjective
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flag

4  [flag] noun, verb, flagged, flag⋅ging.
–noun
1. flagstone (def. 1).
2. flags, flagstone (def. 2).
–verb (used with object)
3. to pave with flagstones.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME flagge piece of sod; akin to ON flaga slab

Related forms:
flagger, noun
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flag 1   (flāg)   
n.  

  1. A piece of cloth, usually rectangular, of distinctive color and design, used as a symbol, standard, signal, or emblem.

  2. National or other allegiance, as symbolized by a flag: ships of the same flag.

  3. A ship carrying the flag of an admiral; a flagship.

  4. A marking device, such as a gummed strip of paper, attached to an object to attract attention or ease identification; a tab.

  5. The masthead of a newspaper.

  6. Music A cross stroke that halves the value of a note to which it is added.

  7. A distinctively shaped or marked tail, as of a dog or deer.

  8. Computer Science A variable or memory location that stores true-or-false, yes-or-no information.

tr.v.   flagged, flag·ging, flags

  1. To mark with a flag or flags for identification or ornamentation: flag a parade route; flagging parts of a manuscript for later review.

    1. To signal with or as if with a flag.

    2. To signal to stop: flag down a passing car.


[Origin unknown.]
flag'ger n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
flag

  1. tv.
    to fail a course. : Pat flagged English again.
  2. n.
    the grade of F. : I'll get a flag on algebra for the semester.
  3. tv.
    to arrest someone. (See also flagged.) : They flagged Bob for speeding even though he was a judge.
  4. n.
    a headcloth or bandana, especially one that shows gang identity. (Streets.) : The kid wore a “flag” that alerted the officers to the fact that he was a gang member.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

flag  (n.)
"cloth ensign," c.1480, now in all modern Gmc. languages, but apparently first recorded in Eng., origin unknown, but likely connected with flag (v.) or else, like it, onomatopoeic. A less likely guess is that it is from the flag in flagstone (q.v.) on notion of being square and flat. Flagship is 1672, ship bearing an admiral's flag. U.S. Flag Day (1894) is in reference to the adopting of the Stars and Stripes by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1777.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Financial Dictionary

flag

See triangle.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
Copyright © 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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