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green flag

noun

  1. (in automobile racing) a green-colored flag that is used to signal the start of a race.


Green Flag

noun

  1. an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

Instead, these athletes will compete under a designated green flag.

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There’s a red, black, and green flag with a golden lion in the middle of it painted on its tail.

Byron, the first of the contenders to pit under a green flag with 104 laps to go, moved to the front 31 laps later and was never threatened after getting the jump at the start of overtime.

The race featured long green flag runs, with two of the five cautions pre-planned at the end of stages one and two.

Larson, who won this race last year, barely beat Truex off pit road during green flag stops with 65 laps to go, but Truex quickly caught him and pulled away as he had many times earlier.

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