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What is a Jolly Roger?

What is a Jolly Roger? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The traditional flag used on European and American pirate ships; often pictured as a white skull and crossbones on a black field; the blackjack. [from early 18th c.]
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He got so frustrated with his words that he threw his dagger across the room, nailing a Jolly Roger right in the nose.
You don't imagine for an instant that they'll maroon us and hoist the Jolly Roger, do you?
The night they murdered Chrissie Hewitt outside the Jolly Roger was more or less the beginning.
For gentler fun there's now a Jolly Roger family boat ride in the Pirate Cove, where captains and young pirates can jump aboard together.
Despite my reference to my colleagues in the Pirate Party, Rip does not fly the Jolly Roger.
That makes us pirates, and that old Maggie burgee floatin' at the fore ain't nothin' more nor less than the Jolly Roger.

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