All-American

adjective2

1. •
   (US) Of a person or a team, or some other thing: regarded as the best in the United States; of a team, composed entirely of members who are each the best from their state, league, or region.

   • He was an All-American basketball player last year.
2. •
   (US) Of a regiment or division: composed of members from every state in the Union.

noun2

1. •
   (US) A person or a team, or some other thing, regarded as the best in the United States; a team composed entirely of members who are each the best from their state, league, or region.

   • [Bennie] Oosterbaan won letters in football, basketball, and baseball, and was selected as an All-American end for three successive years. — 1930
2. •
   Ellipsis of All-American athlete, player, team (chiefly sports), All-American boy, girl, person, or family (loosely, transferred sense)

adjective2

1. •
   Comprising things that are wholly from the United States of America; completely made in the United States.

   • One month director John Woo might be directing Jackie Chan in Rumble in the Bronx (1996), and the next an all-American cast in Broken Arrow (1999) or Face Off (2000),^([sic]) both with John Travolta. — 2009
2. •
   Regarded as embodying the ideal qualities of the United States; typically American; (specifically) of a person: courageous, heroic; honest, wholesome, etc.

   • The [Davy] Crockett revival of the 1950's engineered by Walt Disney presented an all-American boy scout type as a mass-culture hero. — 1968

noun2

1. •
   A person or thing regarded as embodying the ideal qualities of the United States of America; typically American; (specifically) a person from the United States who is courageous, heroic, honest, wholesome, etc.

   • He was regarded by the other soldiers as an all-American for his courage in battle.
2. •
   Ellipsis of all-American athlete, player, team (chiefly sports), all-American boy, girl, person, or family (loosely, transferred sense)