all-star

[ awl-stahr ]

/ ˈɔlˌstɑr /

consisting of athletes chosen as the best at their positions from all teams in a league or region: Our quarterback was chosen for the all-star team.

consisting entirely of star performers: an all-star cast.

Sports. a player selected for an all-star team.

Origin of all-star

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

To his peers, he's an all-star eccentric who is pitied or clucked over protectively as often as he is envied.

Will the Real Jim Palmer Please Stand Up |Tom Boswell |September 27, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
At some point in the intervening decades, all of those cards have vanished, save one: my 1978 Reggie Jackson All-Star card.

The Best Quantified Self Site You Haven’t Heard Of |Jamie Todd Rubin |August 5, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Sapan has shot an all-star list of portraits, a six-week process that starts around $2,500: Warhol was an early subject.

New York’s Hologram King Is Also the City’s Last Pro Holographer |Nina Strochlic |May 27, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
“This is a prestigious panel, an all-star group,” Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) gushed of the five people sitting before him.

The Heroin Hearing That Wasn’t |Abby Haglage |April 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

He was an All-Star in 1971, and helped lead the Pirates to a World Series championship that year.

‘No No,’ a Documentary on MLB Pitcher Dock Ellis, Who Pitched a No-Hitter While Tripping on Acid |Marlow Stern |February 5, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
He was pretty hard hit by the failure of the All-Star League to go through last year, but hes got plenty left.

Baseball Joe, Home Run King |Lester Chadwick
If ever a magazine merited the designation “all-star number,” your August issue filled the bill.

Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 |Various
He had "an all-star production," direct from "the leading theatres of the universe."

The Daughter of Anderson Crow |George Barr McCutcheon
It is not my purpose to select an all-star football team from the long list of heroes past and present.

Football Days |William H. Edwards
It sounded the death knell of the All-Star League, and it went to pieces like a house of cards.

Baseball Joe Around the World |Lester Chadwick

all-star

(prenominal) consisting of star performers