flag-waver
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Definition of flag-waver
1 : one who is intensely and conspicuously patriotic
2 : one who waves a flag in signaling
3 : a song intended to rouse patriotic sentiment
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Synonyms
chauvinist, jingo, nationalist, superpatriot
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