Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The flag of the United States.
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- noun The
flag of theUnited States . - proper noun The official newspaper of the United States armed forces.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the national flag of the United States of America
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Examples
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The "Stars and Stripes" newspaper reports that Sergeant Asan Akbar is being transferred back to the U.S.
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The English franklin and the English peasant who come here usually weigh their allegiance a little before they make up their minds; but, if they have been persuaded that Queen Victoria's reign is a "_baneful domination_," they either go to the United States at once, or to those portions of Canada where sympathy with the Stars and Stripes is the order of the day. [
Canada and the Canadians Volume I Richard Henry Bonnycastle 1819
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Their goal was to scandalize the guests who were already on the Island by pulling down the Stars and Stripes and replacing it with their Yippie flag.
Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 2: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011
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He was twice the ombudsman for the Stars and Stripes newspaper, which covers the U.S. military, and edited the Pentagon's "Early Bird" internal news-clipping service.
Bill Monroe, TV journalist and 'Meet the Press' host, dies at 90 Emma Brown 2011
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Their goal was to scandalize the guests who were already on the Island by pulling down the Stars and Stripes and replacing it with their Yippie flag.
Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 2: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011
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Their goal was to scandalize the guests who were already on the Island by pulling down the Stars and Stripes and replacing it with their Yippie flag.
Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 2: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011
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During the exhibition, Faith Ringgold, Jean Toche and Jon Hendricks are arrested for their "desecrations" of the flag, which in Ringgold's case isn't really the use of a flag as much as it is a repainting of the flag with the words Die Nigger interspersed with the Stars and Stripes.
G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011
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Their goal was to scandalize the guests who were already on the Island by pulling down the Stars and Stripes and replacing it with their Yippie flag.
Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 2: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011
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During the exhibition, Faith Ringgold, Jean Toche and Jon Hendricks are arrested for their "desecrations" of the flag, which in Ringgold's case isn't really the use of a flag as much as it is a repainting of the flag with the words Die Nigger interspersed with the Stars and Stripes.
G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011
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Their goal was to scandalize the guests who were already on the Island by pulling down the Stars and Stripes and replacing it with their Yippie flag.
Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 2: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011
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