flag-waver
English
Alternative forms
- flag waver
- flagwaver
Etymology
flag + waver
Noun
flag-waver (plural flag-wavers)
- A highly vocal and visible supporter of a cause.
- 1910, George A. Donnelly, The Union Postal Clerk (volume 6, page 102)
- In every organization exists a number of so-called flagwavers. Their principal stock in trade is a boisterous verbal display of loyalty to the cause […]
- 1977, Sidney Bernard, Witnessing: The Seventies (page 39)
- And the hardcore group of some fifty North Viet flagwavers, they're toting the yellow-star standard as if they owned it! And does General Giap know his battles are being won with the aid of every last boy and girl fluttering their flags […]
- 2016, Chris Grey, A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Studying Organizations (Fourth Edition)
- These kinds of empirical studies might seem like the best way of countering the claims of post-bureaucracy's flag-wavers. They certainly act as an antidote to the extravagant and self-serving claims […]
- 1910, George A. Donnelly, The Union Postal Clerk (volume 6, page 102)
Related terms
- flag-waving