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CROSSBONES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does crossbones mean?
• CROSSBONES (noun)
The noun CROSSBONES has 1 sense:
1. two crossed bones (or a representation of two crossed bones) used as a symbol danger or death
Familiarity information: CROSSBONES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Two crossed bones (or a representation of two crossed bones) used as a symbol danger or death
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("crossbones" is a kind of...):
symbol; symbolic representation; symbolisation; symbolization (something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible)
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