flag-waving

English

Alternative forms

• flag waving
• flagwaving

Etymology

From flag +‎ waving.

Noun

flag-waving (uncountable)

1. Highly vocal and visible support given to a cause.
2. (television) Undesirable horizontal skewing of frames in a video signal.
   • 1973, Signals, volume 28, numbers 1-11, page 109:

     They eliminate picture rolls, tearing, flag waving, hue shift, skew error or color streaking.

   • 1999, A. M. Dhake, TV and Video Engineering, page 497:

     The picture may also show a horizontal jitter at the top left appearing as flag waving.

Related terms

• flag-waver