JOLLY ROGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jolly Roger mean? 

• JOLLY ROGER (noun)
  The noun JOLLY ROGER has 1 sense:

1. a flag usually bearing a white skull and crossbones on a black background; indicates a pirate ship

  Familiarity information: JOLLY ROGER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JOLLY ROGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A flag usually bearing a white skull and crossbones on a black background; indicates a pirate ship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

black flag; blackjack; Jolly Roger; pirate flag

Hypernyms ("Jolly Roger" is a kind of...):

flag (emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design)

Meronyms (parts of "Jolly Roger"):

skull and crossbones (emblem warning of danger or death)

 Context examples 

The HISPANIOLA, in that unbroken mirror, was exactly portrayed from the truck to the waterline, the Jolly Roger hanging from her peak.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The HISPANIOLA still lay where she had anchored; but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Roger—the black flag of piracy—flying from her peak.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Why, in a place like this, where nobody puts in but gen'lemen of fortune, Silver would fly the Jolly Roger, you don't make no doubt of that.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)