all-star

[ awl-stahr ]

adjective

1. 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.

2. consisting entirely of star performers:

   an all-star cast.

noun

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

all-star

adjective

1. prenominal consisting of star performers

Word History and Origins

Origin of all-star¹

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The 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.

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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

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

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

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