black flag in English

noun
1
a pirate's ensign, typically thought to feature a white skull and crossbones on a black background; Jolly Roger.
She is known throughout the Royal Navy as the ‘Black Duke’ and she flies a black flag from her mainmast at all times.
2
a black flag used to signal a driver to make an immediate pit stop as punishment for violating a rule or driving dangerously, or to force inspection of a hazardous condition such as an oil leak.
It was a relief that there were no penalty points for bad driving as I picked up three black flags - meaning a stop and go penalty in the pit lane - in as many laps.
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1. Can everyone see the black flag out there?

2. The French estimated Black Flag casualties at around 300 dead and 800 wounded.

3. Chinese troops fought alongside Liu Yung-fu's Black Flag Army during the Sơn Tây Campaign (December 1883).

4. One expedient adopted by General Millot to speed recruitment was to make use of deserters from the Black Flag Army.

5. Showing off my impeccable taste in music, I ran a search for “hardcore punk” and got a ton of Black Flag.

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8. Backtrack's live performance is a confrontational affair, with raw, brutal hardcore riffs aplenty that reminds of Black Flag as well of Pantera and Dimebag Darrell's chunky guitar tones

9. Several hundred Black Flag soldiers surrendered in July 1884, in the wake of the French capture of Hưng Hóa and Tuyên Quang, and offered their services to the French.

10. Assassin’s Creed Rogue was released one year after Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, and it shows.The game does little to differentiate itself from its predecessor, using the same structure, menus, and gameplay

11. Although Admiral Courbet's capture of Son Tay paved the way for the eventual French conquest of Tonkin, the French now had to deal with open opposition from China as well as the Black Flag Army.

12. The flag most commonly identified as the Jolly Roger today—the skull and Crossbones symbol on a black flag—was used during the 1710s by a number of pirate captains including Black Sam Bellamy, Edward England

13. Coronnat's centre column failed to make contact with the Black Flags at all, while Bichot's right column succeeded in capturing the village of Trem but was then held up in front of the Black Flag defences at Quatre Colonnes.

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15. As previously reported on Syria Untold, ISIS has engaged in raising the group's black flag to replace the popular revolution flag in demonstrations, imposing sectarian slogans, desecrating Christian saints’ graves and destroying churches and cultural symbols such as the statue of poet and philosopher Abul Alaa al-Maarri, known for denouncing religious superstition and dogmatism.