Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
flag-waver is a noun meaning "an extreme bellicose nationalist". It carries one recorded sense.
an extreme bellicose nationalist
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for flag-waver come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.