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Flagging
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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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.
5.
EXPANDa 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, especially a paintbrush, when split.
9.
COLLAPSEComputers. 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)
Idiom11.
to signal or warn (a person, automobile, etc.) with or as if with a flag (sometimes followed 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.
EXPANDto mark (a page in a book, file card, etc.) for attention, as by attaching protruding tabs.
15.
COLLAPSE(of a brush) to split the ends of the bristles.
16.
strike the flag,
a.
to relinquish command, as of a ship.
b.
Also, strike one's flag.to submit or surrender: His financial situation is growing worse, but he's not ready to strike the flag.
verb (used without object), flagged, flag·ging.
1.
to fall off in vigor, energy, activity, interest, etc.: Public enthusiasm flagged when the team kept losing.
2.
to hang loosely or limply; droop.
verb (used with object)
3.
to pave with flagstones.
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English flagge piece of sod; akin to Old Norse flaga slab
1400–50; late Middle English flagge piece of sod; akin to Old Norse flaga slab
Related forms
flag·ger, noun
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Word Origin & History
flag
1540s, "flap about loosely," perhaps a variant of M.E. flakken, flacken "to flap, flutter," probably from O.N. flakka "to flicker, flutter," perhaps onomatopoeic of something flapping in the wind. Sense of "go limp, droop" is first recorded 1610s. Meaning "to designate as someone who will not be served
EXPANDmore liquor" is from 1980s, probably from use of flags to signal trains, etc., to halt, which led to the verb in this sense (1856). Related: Flagged; flagging.
COLLAPSE
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Slang Dictionary
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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