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flagman

American  
[flag-muhn] / ˈflæg mən /

noun

flagmen plural
  1. a person who signals with a flag or lantern, as at a railroad crossing.

  2. a person who has charge of or carries a flag.


flagman British  
/ ˈflæɡmən /

noun

  1. a person who has charge of, carries, or signals with a flag, esp a railway employee

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of flagman

First recorded in 1660–70; flag 1 + -man

Example Sentences

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He was working as a flagman near Zabriskie Point, where road repairs require traffic control.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2023

If the one-lane construction zone was too long for the flagmen to see each other, one handed a flag to the last driver permitted through to give to the other flagman.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2022

“In the beginning,” said Denzel Matthys, the flock flagman, “they’d run inside the garden and destroy all the vegetables.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2016

After adjusting the cap pistol strapped to his hip, he took a whirling cut that brought to mind a finish-line flagman or a revolving lawn sprinkler.

From Golf Digest • Sep. 25, 2016

The flagman raised his arm, and Cassidy poised his finger over the button of Smith’s bell.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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