flag-waving

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flag-waving

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From flag + waving.

noun flag waving · flagwaving

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[.]
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.

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@misc{flag_waving_2026,
  title = {flag-waving},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/flag-waving},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}