Home › Words › F › flagstickflagstickflagstick means the pole which marks the location of a hole.EtymologyFrom flag + stick.nounThe pole which marks the location of a holee.g.“He rattled the flagstick twice with his approach shots[…].” — 2007 May 12, Damon Hack, “Woods Saves His Best Shot for Sabbatini”, in New York Times:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).