flagger

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US/ˈflæɡ.əɹ/

noun

One who uses a flag or signal, for example to direct traffic or to start a race.

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Meanings

nounflagger (plural flaggers)

plural flaggers

  1. One who uses a flag or signal, for example to direct traffic or to start a race.

    Between filling the sandwiches, Nicole Moy and Shazza McCormack collect donations for the flags and pass on quietly offered suggestions by local people, anxious about possible illegality, as to where the flaggers should visit next with their ladders and cherrypickers.

    2025 September 14, Daniel Boffey, “Racism or celebration? What England’s flag-hoisters are saying – and what others are hearing”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Origin

From flag + -er.

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Translations

Finnish liputtaja
  • liputtajaone who uses flag
Spanish banderero
  • bandereroone who uses flag

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with flagger

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Cite this entry
APA

flagger. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flagger

MLA

“flagger.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flagger. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “flagger,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flagger.

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