flag-waving

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English

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Etymology

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From flag +‎ waving.

Noun

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flag-waving (uncountable)

  1. Highly vocal and visible support given to a cause.
  2. (television) Undesirable horizontal skewing of frames in a video signal.
    • 1973, Signals, volume 28, numbers 1-11, page 109:
      They eliminate picture rolls, tearing, flag waving, hue shift, skew error or color streaking.
    • 1999, A. M. Dhake, TV and Video Engineering, page 497:
      The picture may also show a horizontal jitter at the top left appearing as flag waving.
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