checkered flag

American  

noun

1. a flag having a pattern of black and white squares, used to signal that a car has crossed the finish line and completed its race.

2. this signal indicating the first car to cross the finish line or the winner.

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Example Sentences

“Well,” Verstappen said after taking the checkered flag, “it’s all possible now.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The first film I saw in a theater was “The Love Bug,” Disney’s 1969 comedy about a sentient Volkswagen Beetle named Herbie and the motley team who race him to many a checkered flag.

From Los Angeles Times

So as much as Saturday’s finale was a party and a wake, it also marked the end of an era for racing in Southern California when Jeffrey Peterson took the final checkered flag in track history.

From Los Angeles Times

The sellout crowd, decked out primarily in gold checkered flag shirts featuring dozens of individual stamps of Indiana’s state outline as part of the Indianapolis 500 weekend celebration, helped inject energy with Haliburton out.

From Seattle Times

He celebrated last week at Talladega Superspeedway in his role as co-owner of 23XI Racing when Tyler Reddick took the checkered flag.

From Seattle Times