slogan

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The Thai slogan translates as "colours of the south".

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  1. noun A phrase expressing the aims or nature of an enterprise, organization, or candidate; a motto.
  2. noun A phrase used repeatedly, as in advertising or promotion: "all the slogans and shibboleths coined out of the ideals of the peoples for the uses of imperialism” (Margaret Sanger).
  3. noun A battle cry of a Scottish clan.

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  • In this part of town, when it came to wealth the slogan was the more respectable, the less acceptable. —  Mistress of Justice
  • For Washington's campaign he coined the slogan, "We Shall See in '83".
  • Anytime someone would mock that slogan, they would get dugg down heavily —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • I know the slogan was supposed to send Nintendo running with its tail between its legs (note: didn't happen), but I'm mystified. —  1UP RSS feed
  • The NCAA fears such scandals like nothing else, to the point of regularly issuing stern warnings to athletes, asking past point-shaving violators to speak to teams and coining a slogan -- "Don't Bet On It" -- that sums up its sweeping anti-gambling stance. —  FanHouse
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  1. Alteration of Scots slogorne, battle cry, from Gaelic sluagh-ghairm : sluagh, host; see slew1 + gairm, shout.

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  1. Sometimes mistaken for a horn, and absurdly written slughorn; from Gaelic sluagh-gairm, a war-cry, from sluagh, a host, army, + gairm, a call, outcry, from gairm, call, cry out, crow as a cock: see crow.
 

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/ˈsloʊgən/
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