also: flags Flags (military, slang) Nickname for a flag lieutenant. 1959, John Gilbert, Face in the Clouds, page 102: Suddenly the flag lieutenant grabbed...
flag lieutenant flag list flag lot flag manifold flag meeting flag of convenience flag officer flag on the play flag pole flag rank flag-selling flag...
general officer in the Army, Marines, or Air Force with the rank of brigadier general or higher. flag lieutenant flag rank general officer Translations...
lieutenant captain lieutenant desk lieutenant fifth lieutenant first lieutenant flag lieutenant flight lieutenant fourth lieutenant junior lieutenant...
grade of commissioned officer in the United States Navy, junior to a lieutenant junior grade. 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter...
for Colonel Sanders colonel general full colonel half-colonel lieutenant colonel (lieutenant-colonel) senior colonel colonelcy colonel-general royal colonel...
sinking ship. An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major. 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The...
and rally rally around rally around the flag rallying point rally round rally round the flag rally round the flag to collect, and reduce to order, as...
Thesaurus:predecessor Corruption of ensign. ancient (plural ancients) (heraldry, archaic) A flag, banner, standard or ensign. c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare]...
stubborn resistance on the part of i-yung and i-min forces, supported by Black Flag detachments, as they drove southward toward the Yün-lin and Chia-i districts...