STARS AND STRIPES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Stars and Stripes mean? 

• STARS AND STRIPES (noun)
  The noun STARS AND STRIPES has 1 sense:

1. the national flag of the United States of America

  Familiarity information: STARS AND STRIPES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STARS AND STRIPES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The national flag of the United States of America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

American flag; Old Glory; Star-Spangled Banner; Stars and Stripes

Hypernyms ("Stars and Stripes" is a kind of...):

flag (emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design)

 Context examples 

Its reception into the Union was a precedent which may have far-reaching effects hereafter, when the Pole and the Tropics may hold alliance to the Stars and Stripes.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)