flagger

One who uses a flag or signal, as for example to direct traffic or to start a race.

Noun

  1. One who uses a flag or signal, as for example to direct traffic or to start a race.
    • Between filling the sandwiches, Nicole Moy and Shazza McCormack collect donations for the flags and pass on quietly offered suggestions by local people, anxious about possible illegality, as to where the flaggers should...

Origin

Etymology tree English flag Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English flagger From flag + -er.

Forms

flaggers

Related

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