stars and bars

1. 1.

   the first flag of the Confederate States of America

   SynonymsConfederate flag

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Questions about stars and bars

What does stars and bars mean?

stars and bars means "the first flag of the Confederate States of America".

What is another word for stars and bars?

Close synonyms include Confederate flag. 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 stars and bars a common word?

stars and bars 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.