flag waving

1. 1.

   an appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions

   Synonymsjingoism

   Broaderdemagoguery

Questions about flag waving

What does flag waving mean?

flag waving means "an appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions".

What is another word for flag waving?

Close synonyms include jingoism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flag waving a common word?

flag waving is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.