Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1888, as the name of a barnstorming baseball team composed of players from various teams across the United States. From all + American.
Wiktionary
a. Known by, encompassing all of, or best in America. n. 1 A United States patriot 2 A recipient of a college sports honor
Wikipedia
All-American usually refers to a member of an honorary national sports team.
All-American may also refer to:
- All-American, a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
- All American (musical), by Mel Brooks
- All American (Hoodie Allen album), a 2012 album by Hoodie Allen
- All American (Nick Carter album), a 2015 album by Nick Carter
- 82nd Airborne Division, nicknamed All-American, a United States Army unit
- Bally's All American, a video poker game
- Blue Bird All American, a line of school buses built by Blue Bird Corporation
- Mixed-breed dog or All American, usually in the United States
- The Mill City All-Americans, later the Lowell All-Americans, a collegiate summer baseball team now the Old Orchard Beach Raging Tide
All-American (Jack Magniconte), who has also been called Mr. Magnificent is a fictional character published in the New Universe imprint of Marvel Comics. He was the central figure of Kickers, Inc., and when that title was discontinued he became a supporting character in other New Universe titles. When the New Universe was brought into the mainstream Marvel Universe, he was one of the characters featured.
Usage examples of "all-american".
He does look the all-American maid to me, on occasion, when energetically scrubbing out the brass basin, brushing with cinnamon-flavored toothpaste, or, like an old grandma, diligently making his bed, fixing the Bhutanese quilts just so.
I can't answer that one, but I know beyond personal doubt that they are basically hostile to people—meaning Reds, Europeans, Australasians, Pan-Africs, All-Americans, whoever.
An all-American boy, cute as a button-whatever the hell that meant-in his summer blues.
The reporter was very pretty, with her mobile eyes and trained expressions, like a latter-day All-American geisha girl.
In Milagro, this meant that since the last quarter of the nineteenth century most sheep ranchers had been serfs of the Devine Company, which, during the seventies and eighties, in one of those democratic and manifestly destined sleights of Horatio Alger's hand (involving a genteel and self-righteous sort of grand larceny, bribery, nepotism, murder, mayhem, and general all-around and all-American nefarious skulduggery), had managed to own outright, or secure the grazing rights to, all the property on the Jorge San-doval Land Grant in Chamisa County.
The pre-tournament favorite was the wily defending Champion, grandmaster Miroslav Terminsky, although sentiment favored John George Bateman, the Intercollegiate Champion, who was also all-American quarterback for Notre Dame, Phi Beta Kappa and the youngest member of the Atomic Energy Commission.
Even forty years after my father left it, Kenosha still exuded the pleasant charm of an All-American town where citizens could feel safe walking the streets at night and where everyone could dream the American dream.
And the face of Jeff Majors, the well-bred, well-scrubbed all-American face.
Tyler was an Annapolis graduate who'd made second-string All-American at offensive tackle before entering the submarine service.
You're at the seaside, on an all-American pier complete with funfare and saltwater taffy, whatever the fuck that is.
Trim and fit, the fifty-two-year-old former all-american shooting guard from Notre Dame looks like he still plays competitive basketball.