Serving as a symbol of the bad Baltic meme (10)

I believe the answer is:

emblematic

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'serving as a symbol of' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.

'bad baltic meme' is the wordplay.
'bad' indicates anagramming the letters.
'baltic'+'meme'='balticmeme'
'balticmeme' is an anagram of 'EMBLEMATIC'.

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(Other definitions for emblematic that I've seen before include "representative symbol" , "Symbolic" , "Symbolical" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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