flagpole

• flag pole

flag +‎ pole

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈflæɡˌpoʊl/

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several flagpoles with flags

flagpole (plural flagpoles)

1. A tall pole up which one or more flags may be raised and flown.

• flagstaff

• run something up the flagpole
• send it up the flagpole and see who salutes

flagpole (third-person singular simple present flagpoles, present participle flagpoling, simple past and past participle flagpoled)

1. (Canada, rare) To exit a country momentarily and reenter, usually in order to satisfy immigration requirements.
   • 2016, Beyhan Farhadi, “Identity and the City: Thinking Through Diversity”, in Jay Pitter, John Lorinc, editors, Subdivided: City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity:

     I understand immigrating to Canada is getting harder and harder. [The difficulty of navigating bureaucracy] might be a way to let people fall between the cracks. I really don't know. The hoops immigrants have to go through, such as flagpoling. And I don't have any political representatives. I didn't vote.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:flagpole.