Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man who signals with or carries a flag.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A signal-man on a railway, who makes signals by means of flags.
- noun A flag-officer; an admiral.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who makes signals with a flag.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A man who carries a
flag , especially one used forsignalling
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Examples
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The best way to understand it is, all weapons are banned, you are NOT allowed to defend yourself, you have to wait for a police officer to get off his detail job (mandated for all road work unless you pay a flagman from the governors cousins company more than the cop’s overtime) to come to the “rescue”, with the firefighters that only now have to pass a single drug test.
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He tried too and then hastily called the flagman, John Miller.
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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He tried too and then hastily called the flagman, John Miller.
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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He tried too and then hastily called the flagman, John Miller.
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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Later, the division superintendent called the flagman to his office to compliment him on the steadfastness with which he stuck to his story.
More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher
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There are two more of us; and I don't know but what you'd call the flagman another, and Uncle Joab, and maybe the South-Americans, too.
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(whom she knew was called the flagman) as he came down the car with his lantern.
Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret Alice B. Emerson
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The trail of an 18-year-old man accused of being the "flagman" in a fatal street racing crash in Meadowvale continues today in Brampton court.
MISSISSAUGA - Home 2010
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All of us should strive for a nice CCC or road building flagman job (no offense to the flag men).
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All of us should strive for a nice CCC or road building flagman job (no offense to the flag men).
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