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flag-waving

[ flag-wey-ving ]

noun

  1. an ostentatiously emotional display of patriotism or factionalism.


flag-waving

noun

  1. informal.
    1. an emotional appeal or display intended to arouse patriotic or nationalistic feeling
    2. ( as modifier )

      a flag-waving speech

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈڱ-ˌɲ, noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of flag-waving1

First recorded in 1890–95
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President Trump’s threats of a trade war and bringing Canada into the U.S. fold have created awkward moments for Americans living north of the border and made Canadians flag-waving patriots.

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"I won't give up," she told thousands of flag-waving supporters in Place Vauban, close to the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Sunday.

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Awards, there was backlash to her supposedly wading outside her genre and into the boot-stomping, flag-waving — very white — world of country.

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These numbers don’t reveal much evidence of raging majoritarian white nationalism or the notion that African Americans would be alienated by flag-waving.

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For Republicans, that should have become uncomfortably clear during last week’s Democratic National Convention, when the party of traditionally unherdable cats became a flag-waving, “Born in the U.S.A.”- singing single-celled organism.

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