Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pole on which a flag is raised.
- idiom (run (something) up the flagpole) To test (a plan, suggestion, draft, or idea) and then measure the response to it.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
flagstaff .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pole used to display a flag.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A tall
pole up which one or moreflags may be raised and flown.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun surveying instrument consisting of a straight rod painted in bands of alternate red and white each one foot wide; used for sightings by surveyors
- noun a tall staff or pole on which a flag is raised
Etymologies
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Examples
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The message of the pledge and the flagpole is that this is a nation that we live in and whose values we cherish.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Disagreement Need Not Equal Discourtesy 2010
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When the best thing you can find to run up the flagpole is something pointedly unimpressive, what you’re better off running up the flagpole is nothing atall.
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When the best thing you can find to run up the flagpole is something pointedly unimpressive, what you’re better off running up the flagpole is nothing atall.
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Just behind the hedges in the middle of the picture by the flagpole are a couple walls with the remains of gravestones of soldiers from almost 200 years ago.
Walk to Coronation Park Teena in Toronto 2007
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Just behind the hedges in the middle of the picture by the flagpole are a couple walls with the remains of gravestones of soldiers from almost 200 years ago.
Archive 2007-07-01 Teena in Toronto 2007
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And if you look very carefully, you will see on top of the flagpole is a cap of liberty.
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That comes only weeks after the unveiling of the world's tallest flagpole, which is estimated to have cost more than $3.5 million to create.
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That comes only weeks after the unveiling of the world's tallest flagpole, which is estimated to have cost more than $3.5 million to create.
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Ravenna Township Trustee Patsy Artz says both were lucky to survive and calls the flagpole "an accident waiting to happen."
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The flagpole was a gift to New York from the Netherlands in
reesetee commented on the word flagpole
The object around which the monkey wrapped his tail.
September 10, 2007