beige flag

noun

Etymology

By analogy with red flag and green flag, due to the perception of beige as a boring or bland colour. Popularized on TikTok in 2022.

1
A clue or indication (especially on an online dating profile) that a person is boring or…
A clue or indication (especially on an online dating profile) that a person is boring or unoriginal.
- just seen someone on tiktok saying people talking about pineapple on pizza on dating apps is the biggest "beige flag" and i could not agree more
- Jana Hocking says having a standard profile picture on a dating app is a "beige flag."
2
A mundane but mildly unusual quirk or habit of one's romantic partner.
- my bf's beige flag is he'll constantly tell me he has ocd but then proceed to cut the brownies like this 😭😭😭
3
Someone who has a beige flag (in either sense).
- That guy is a huge beige flag.
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  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically
  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beige, flag.
  - Lenny looked down at his clothes. He was wearing a pair of beige pants and a green shirt. He'd dressed himself without his book of flags. There were no beige flags. Not yet anyway. But someday there might be.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA