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Jolly Rogers

Jolly Rogers is the plural of Jolly Roger.

Meaning of Jolly Roger

Noun

Jolly Roger (plural Jolly Rogers)

  1. The traditional flag used on European and American pirate ships, and, more recently, by submarine crews, often pictured as a white skull and crossbones on a black field; the blackjack.
    • A Day or two after they parted, [Francis] Spriggs was choſe Captain by the reſt, and a black Enſign was made, which they called Jolly Roger, with the ſame Device that Captain [Edward] Low carried, viz. a white Skeliton in the Middle of it, with a Dart in one Hand ſtriking a bleeding Heart, and in...1724, Charles Johnson [pseudonym], “Of Captain Spriggs and His Crew”, in A General History of the Pyrates, […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for, and sold by T. Warner, […], →OCLC, pages 411–412
    Synonyms:
    black flag, Roger

Questions about Jolly Rogers

What is Jolly Rogers the plural of?
Jolly Rogers is the plural of Jolly Roger.

Words near Jolly Rogers in the dictionary

  1. jolly good show
  2. jolly jumper
  3. jolly jumpers
  4. Jolly Nose
  5. Jolly Roger
  6. Jolly Rogers
  7. jolly well
  8. jolly-hockey-sticks
  9. jollyboat
  10. jollyboats
  11. jollyer

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