flagfall

Meaning of flagfall

noun
  1. a fixed initial charge incurred at the start of a taxi journey, as part of the overall fare.
    passengers were slugged with a $3.60 surcharge on New Year's Eve, on top of the $4.20 flagfall
    the air-conditioned taxis charge a flagfall of 35 baht
  2. (in horse racing or motor racing) the start or end of a race, as signified by the lowering of a flag.
    the 16–1 outsider led from flagfall
    Morris maintained his advantage but Charlie was a fighting second, just a tenth of a second behind at flagfall

late 19th century: from flag1 + fall; in flagfall (sense 1) flag refers to a mechanism in a taximeter that was raised to indicate that a taxi was for hire and lowered to activate the taximeter.

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Hyphenation of flagfall

flag-fall

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • flagfall is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with flagfall

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