all-star
- 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.
- Sports. a player selected for an all-star team.
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Contemporary Examples of all-star
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.
Mark Cuban Warns That Basketball Players Could Get the Sterling Treatment NextEvan Weiner
June 3, 2014
Sapan has shot an all-star list of portraits, a six-week process that starts around $2,500: Warhol was an early subject.
“This is a prestigious panel, an all-star group,” Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) gushed of the five people sitting before him.
Historical Examples of all-star
It's like one of those plays advertised as having an all-star cast.
Half PortionsEdna Ferber
This is the reason why "all-star" performances are almost always bad.
The Theory of the TheatreClayton Hamilton
Paul Day wins the prize and his play has a try-out with an all-star amateur cast, and Peggy Emmons is chosen to play the lead.
Polly's First Year at Boarding SchoolDorothy Whitehill
If ever a magazine merited the designation “all-star number,” your August issue filled the bill.
It is not my purpose to select an all-star football team from the long list of heroes past and present.
Football DaysWilliam H. Edwards
all-star
- (prenominal) consisting of star performers