all-star

[ awl-stahr ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

consisting of athletes chosen as the best at their positions from all teams in a league or region:
Our quarterback was chosen for the all-star team.
consisting entirely of star performers:
an all-star cast.

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An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

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Putting the show to bed was like, “Fuck, am I breaking up this all-star team?”

To his peers, he's an all-star eccentric who is pitied or clucked over protectively as often as he is envied.

At some point in the intervening decades, all of those cards have vanished, save one: my 1978 Reggie Jackson All-Star card.

In 2007, Tim Hardaway lost his gig promoting the NBA and its All-Star game after telling a radio interviewer that he hates gays.

Sapan has shot an all-star list of portraits, a six-week process that starts around $2,500: Warhol was an early subject.

It sounded the death knell of the All-Star League, and it went to pieces like a house of cards.

It was only a monologue, however: now we have an all-star cast: and they're not only Irish; they're royal Irish.

Frohman literally loved the word "star," and he delighted in the so-called "all-star casts."

He was pretty hard hit by the failure of the All-Star League to go through last year, but hes got plenty left.

He had "an all-star production," direct from "the leading theatres of the universe."

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