Phrase Hound found 63 phrases and 11 compound words that contain flags. The most common are listed below. Open flags in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 63
- red flagsplural of red flag: A flag that is red, especially associated with leftist revolutionary ideologies.
- flags of convenienceplural of flag of convenience: Registration of a ship in a country chosen for its low taxes, permissive regulations, etc.
- crack the flagsOf the sun or sunshine: to beat down very strongly; to be extremely hot.
- black flagsplural of black flag: Any flag that has a black, or predominantly black, color, (especially):
- false flagsplural of false flag: A ruse, in the days of sail, in which an attacking ship would fly the colours of its enemy until close enough to open fire.
- national flagsplural of national flag: A flag that represents and symbolizes a given nation. (This entry is a translation hub.)
- prayer flagsplural of prayer flag: A colourful rectangular cloth hung from a thread and strung along mountain ridges and peaks high in the Himalayas by practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism to bless the surrounding countryside or for other purposes.
- white flagsplural of white flag: A flag with a white color, used as a symbol of truce or surrender.
- pride flagsplural of pride flag: The rainbow flag or variants of it.
- rainbow flagsplural of rainbow flag: A rainbow-striped flag, typically consisting of six horizontal bars (from top to bottom: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet), used as a symbol of LGBT pride and LGBT social movements.
- rebel flagsplural of rebel flag: The Confederate battle flag
- Confederate flagsplural of Confederate flag: The Stars and Bars, the official Confederate flag.
- cracked the flagssimple past and past participle of crack the flags
- semaphore flagsplural of semaphore flag: A flag used in semaphore. At sea, the flags are colored red and yellow (the Oscar flags), while on land, they are white and blue (the Papa flags).
- blue flagsplural of blue flag: An award given to European beaches, based on cleanliness and water quality.
- corner flagsplural of corner flag: Each of the flags that denotes the corner of the field of play.
- death flagsplural of death flag: A trope suggesting to the viewer that a character will die.
- dragon flagsplural of dragon flag: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dragon, flag.
- flags awaythird-person singular simple present indicative of flag away: To abandon; to give up on; to avoid continuing with.
- flags downthird-person singular simple present indicative of flag down: Use a flag or similar kind of signal to get someone's attention.
- flags upthird-person singular simple present indicative of flag up: To mark for attention; to flag.
- green flagsplural of green flag: A flag that is green, used in motor racing to indicate the beginning or resumption of a race.
- house-flagsplural of house-flag: A flag that uniquely identifies the company that owns or, occasionally, that operates a ship.
- Jewish flagsplural of Jewish flag: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Jewish, flag.
- municipal flagsplural of municipal flag: A flag, usually of a town, city, or urban area.
Compound words 11
- flagstonesplural of flagstone: A flat, rectangular piece of rock or stone used for paving or roofing.
- flagshipsplural of flagship: The ship occupied by the fleet's commander (usually an admiral); it denotes this by flying his flag.
- FlagstadA surname.
- antiflagsplural of antiflag: A nonincident point-hyperplane pair in a projective space.
- bitflagsplural of bitflag: A bit (binary digit) whose value acts as a flag to enable or disable some behaviour.
- cornflagsplural of cornflag: sword lily
- flagsticksplural of flagstick: The pole which marks the location of a hole
- greenflagsplural of greenflag: A flag that is green, used in motor racing to indicate the beginning or resumption of a race.
- hashflagsplural of hashflag: A non-Unicode pictogram, similar to an emoji, automatically appended to a trending and often branded hashtag in a tweet.
- houseflagsplural of houseflag: A flag that uniquely identifies the company that owns or, occasionally, that operates a ship.