Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an extreme bellicose nationalist.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an extreme bellicose nationalist
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word flag-waver.
Examples
-
The Economist, not known as a flag-waver for Little Englanders, opines: As investors and voters lose faith, the task of saving the single currency grows harder.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Jeff Randall 2011
-
The cultural flag-waver celebrates the latest developments in the nation's cinema, which has been on the map since the 1960s with names like Milo š Forman, Ji ř í Menzel and J á n Kad á r.
Fighting Hard to Be Seen Steve Dollar 2010
-
Flying Lotus aka Steven Ellison is the most zealous flag-waver for a new and twisted sound grown out of Los Angeles.
Four Strings and a Tune Andy Battaglia 2011
-
The more intriguing story, which Andrews tells very well, is how what started in the 1960s as a hippy beach cafe on an all but unreachable cove became first a restaurant, then a gastronomic restaurant cleaving to the trend for nouvelle cuisine, and then something else entirely, the flag-waver for a vanguard.
Reinventing Food – Ferran Adrià: The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat by Colman Andrews – review Jay Rayner 2010
-
Flying Lotus aka Steven Ellison is the most zealous flag-waver for a new and twisted sound grown out of Los Angeles.
Four Strings and a Tune Andy Battaglia 2011
-
I'm not just a Michigan flag-waver, offering a feel-good, "rah-rah" speech about economic hope for Michigan when it comes to LEDs -- my firm has put our money where our mouth is because we believe it.
-
I'm not just a Michigan flag-waver, offering a feel-good, "rah-rah" speech about economic hope for Michigan when it comes to LEDs -- my firm has put our money where our mouth is because we believe it.
-
This is as bad as that closeted-gay GOP flag-waver, Ron Christie ...
GOP Strategist Accuses Obama Of Trying To Start "Race War" 2009
-
In an essay written in 1943 entitled 'The English People', Orwell, while generally acting as something of a flag-waver (uncharacteristically so, but it was during wartime) gave in passing a somewhat harsh account of what he regarded as one special characteristic of his compatriots:
What George Orwell and Jack London can teach us about the Michael Vick Affair 2009
-
SP has us so mesmerized: she is a clearly a pop-culture beacon, a flag-waver of our eschewed priorities, boredom, or need for entertainment.
Ed and Deb Shapiro: What The Buddha Would Say To Sarah Palin 2009
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.