Definition of "flagman" [flag•man]

• A man who signals with or carries a flag. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The best way to understand it is, all weapons are banned, you are NOT allowed to defend yourself, you have to wait for a police officer to get off his detail job (mandated for all road work unless you pay a flagman from the governors cousins company more than the cop’s overtime) to come to the “rescue”, with the firefighters that only now have to pass a single drug test."
• "He tried too and then hastily called the flagman, John Miller."
• "Later, the division superintendent called the flagman to his office to compliment him on the steadfastness with which he stuck to his story."