Definition of armband
:a band worn around the arm;
especially
:a band worn around the arm for identification or in mourning
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Some didn’t want to be called neo-Nazis, but wore swastika armbands and spat fascist ideology all the same.
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In decades past, civil servants wearing yellow armbands whistled people off the streets and teachers ordered school children to crouch under their desks for exercises that lasted 30 minutes.
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In decades past, civil servants wearing yellow armbands whistled people off the streets and teachers ordered school children to crouch under their desks for exercises that lasted 30 minutes.
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In decades past, civil servants wearing yellow armbands whistled people off the streets and teachers ordered school children to crouch under their desks for exercises that lasted 30 minutes.
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Barcelona said club members playing in various age divisions over the weekend will also wear a black armband in honor of the victims.
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The Twitter user posted an old photo of Mr. Salads wearing a swastika armband, a photo that had been from a different event.
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A YouTube personality with misidentified as a Nazi because an old image of him wearing a swastika armband surfaced online.
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Not long after, she was sent home from school for wearing an armband to protest the Vietnam War.
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Definition of armband for English Language Learners
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: a band worn around the arm; especially : one that is worn around the upper part of a sleeve to show who you are or to show that you are in mourning
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