all-star

[ awl-stahr ]

/ ˈɔlˌstɑr /

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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.

noun

Sports. a player selected for an all-star team.

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Origin of all-star

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Words nearby all-star

all-singing all-dancing, all-sorts, All Souls' Day, allspice, all square, all-star, all-state, Allston, All's Well That Ends Well, all systems go, all talk (and no action)

How to use all-star in a sentence

Putting the show to bed was like, “Fuck, am I breaking up this all-star team?”
The Zany Shades of Nick Kroll|Abby Haglage|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To his peers, he's an all-star eccentric who is pitied or clucked over protectively as often as he is envied.
Will the Real Jim Palmer Please Stand Up|Tom Boswell|September 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
At some point in the intervening decades, all of those cards have vanished, save one: my 1978 Reggie Jackson All-Star card.
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In 2007, Tim Hardaway lost his gig promoting the NBA and its All-Star game after telling a radio interviewer that he hates gays.
Mark Cuban Warns That Basketball Players Could Get the Sterling Treatment Next|Evan Weiner|June 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Sapan has shot an all-star list of portraits, a six-week process that starts around $2,500: Warhol was an early subject.
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It sounded the death knell of the All-Star League, and it went to pieces like a house of cards.
Baseball Joe Around the World|Lester Chadwick
It was only a monologue, however: now we have an all-star cast: and they're not only Irish; they're royal Irish.
The Book of the Damned|Charles Fort
Frohman literally loved the word "star," and he delighted in the so-called "all-star casts."
Charles Frohman: Manager and Man|Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman
He was pretty hard hit by the failure of the All-Star League to go through last year, but hes got plenty left.
Baseball Joe, Home Run King|Lester Chadwick
He had "an all-star production," direct from "the leading theatres of the universe."
The Daughter of Anderson Crow|George Barr McCutcheon

British Dictionary definitions for all-star

all-star

adjective

(prenominal) consisting of star performers

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