UNION JACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Union Jack mean? 

• UNION JACK (noun)
  The noun UNION JACK has 1 sense:

1. national flag of the United Kingdom

  Familiarity information: UNION JACK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNION JACK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

National flag of the United Kingdom

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Union flag; Union Jack

Hypernyms ("Union Jack" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

Another pause, and then, not a quarter of a mile in front of me, I beheld the Union Jack flutter in the air above a wood.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

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)

Add to this that Gray, the new man, had his face tied up in a bandage for a cut he had got in breaking away from the mutineers and that poor old Tom Redruth, still unburied, lay along the wall, stiff and stark, under the Union Jack.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)