flagpole

See also: flag pole

English

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Etymology

From flag +‎ pole. Cognate with West Frisian flaggepeal (“flagpole”), Dutch vlaggenpaal (“flagpole”), Low German Flaggenpohl (“flagpole”), German Flaggenpfahl (“flagpole”).

Compare also West Frisian flaggemast (“flagpole”, literally “flag-mast”), Dutch vlaggenmast (“flagpole”, literally “flag-mast”), Low German Flaggstock (“flagpole”, literally “flag-stick”), Danish flagstang (“flagpole”, literally “flag-pole”), Swedish flaggstång (“flagpole”, literally “flag-pole”), Norwegian flaggstang (“flagpole”, literally “flag-pole”), Faroese flaggstong (“flagpole”, literally “flag-pole”).

Pronunciation

  • (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈflæɡˌpoʊl/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

Several flagpoles with flags

flagpole (plural flagpoles)

  1. A tall pole up which one or more flags may be raised and flown.

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flagpole (third-person singular simple present flagpoles, present participle flagpoling, simple past and past participle flagpoled)

  1. (Canada, rare) To exit a country momentarily and reenter, usually in order to satisfy immigration requirements.
    • 2016, Beyhan Farhadi, “Identity and the City: Thinking Through Diversity”, in Jay Pitter, John Lorinc, editors, Subdivided: City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity:
      I understand immigrating to Canada is getting harder and harder. [The difficulty of navigating bureaucracy] might be a way to let people fall between the cracks. I really don't know. The hoops immigrants have to go through, such as flagpoling. And I don't have any political representatives. I didn't vote.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:flagpole.
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