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corner flag (plural corner flags)

  1. (sports) Each of the flags that denotes the corner of the field of play.
    • 2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France[1]:
      Wilkinson was struggling, sending the re-start straight into touch and flinging a pass the same way, and France then went close to the first try of the contest as Clerc took a long pass out on the left and was just bundled into touch by the corner flag.

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