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flag-waving en · NOUN

Etymology

From flag + waving.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Highly vocal and visible support given to a cause.
   • I soon discovered that nobody seemed to want Anzacs in spite of their flag-waving and yapping before we left[.] 1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 122:
2. (dated, uncountable) Undesirable horizontal skewing of frames in an analog video signal.
   • They eliminate picture rolls, tearing, flag waving, hue shift, skew error or color streaking. 1973, Signals, volume 28, numbers 1-11, page 109:
   • The picture may also show a horizontal jitter at the top left appearing as flag waving. 1999, A. M. Dhake, TV and Video Engineering, page 497:

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Relateds

flag-waver