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- adjective idiomatic, US
Demonstratively patriotic .
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Refers to the Fourth of July, which is Independence Day in the United States. The specific phrase likely originates with the song "Yankee Doodle Dandy" which opens with "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy / A Yankee Doodle, do or die / A real live nephew of my uncle Sam's / Born on the Fourth of July".
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