Flags

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Flags

  1. (military, slang) Nickname for a flag lieutenant.
    • 1959, John Gilbert, Face in the Clouds, page 102:
      Suddenly the flag lieutenant grabbed an air vice-marshal's daughter by the hand and dragged her past the Charltons [] Flags was always doing something of this sort, and although Paul did not know him, he disliked it []
    • 1971, Piet van der Byl, From Playgrounds to Battlefields, volume 1, page 193:
      [] up the Flag Lieutenant to inform him that a cow would have to accompany the distinguished passenger. "Flags" was rather horrified at this, so Louis, overworked and slightly irritable, said, "Very well — no damn cow, no damn general — []