black-flag
1 of 2verb
ˈblak-ˈflag 
black-flagged; black-flagging; black-flags
transitive verb
: to signal (a race-car driver) to go immediately to the pits
black flag
2 of 2noun
: a pirate's flag usually bearing a skull and crossbones
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web
Susannah George, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022 On that May morning, al-Shabab fighters seized control and planted their black flag at the base. Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 17 July 2022 Outside the building, barricades were overturned and a black flag was hoisted on a pole. Krishan Francis, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 July 2022 Recent weeks have seen a furor by nationalists over the waving of the red, white, green, and black flag by Palestinians in Israel and in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem. Tia Goldenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2022 And scores, maybe hundreds, of prisoners had escaped, free to raise the Islamic State’s black flag and fight again. Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2022 The first person arrested under the law drove a motorcycle carrying a black flag with the slogan into several police officers. NBC News, 20 Jan. 2022 In front of them, two of Afghanistan’s substitutes unfurled a large green, red and black flag, the one Dastgir had carried with him to Belek. New York Times, 18 Nov. 2021 According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the symbol represents the red flag of the 1917 Russian Revolution and the black flag of 19th century anarchists. Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2021 See More
Noun
The group’s white and black flag flies over the rubble. Susannah George, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022 On that May morning, al-Shabab fighters seized control and planted their black flag at the base. Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 17 July 2022 Outside the building, barricades were overturned and a black flag was hoisted on a pole. Krishan Francis, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 July 2022 Recent weeks have seen a furor by nationalists over the waving of the red, white, green, and black flag by Palestinians in Israel and in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem. Tia Goldenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2022 And scores, maybe hundreds, of prisoners had escaped, free to raise the Islamic State’s black flag and fight again. Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2022 The first person arrested under the law drove a motorcycle carrying a black flag with the slogan into several police officers. NBC News, 20 Jan. 2022 In front of them, two of Afghanistan’s substitutes unfurled a large green, red and black flag, the one Dastgir had carried with him to Belek. New York Times, 18 Nov. 2021 According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the symbol represents the red flag of the 1917 Russian Revolution and the black flag of 19th century anarchists. Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
Verb
1963, in the meaning defined above
Noun
1720, in the meaning defined above
- familiarizers
- familiarizes
- familiarizing
- familiarly
- familiarness
- familiarnesses
- familiars
- families
- familism
- familisms
- familist
- familistic
- familists
- famille jaune
- famille noire
- famille rose
- famille verte
- family
- family allowance
- family altar
- family Bible
- family business
- family circle
- family contract
- family court