flag-waving

alternative flag waving · alternative flagwaving

1. uncountableHighly 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

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   One might assume that it is contradictory for Trump, elected on a flag-waving “America first” platform, to lend credence to this vision of sovereign territories ruled over by billionaire god-kings.

   2025 April 13, Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, “The rise of end times fascism”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

2. dateduncountablebroadcastingUndesirable horizontal skewing of frames in an analog video signal.

   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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   They eliminate picture rolls, tearing, flag waving, hue shift, skew error or color streaking.

   1973, Signals, volume 28, numbers 1-11, page 109