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Meaning of skull-and-crossbones | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

Noun. [C2]

Examples

“Overhead, the black flag with the white skull-and-crossbones symbolizing defiance of radio regulations fluttered limply atop the two-hundred-foot mast mounted on the converted coaster from which they operated.”
“Because when I saw him again, the Bird had two skull-and-crossbones stenciled on his X-ray camera.”
“It was a quilted leather tote with tiny skulls-and-crossbones inside each diamond; Sirena's style was definitely impossible to miss. But the million-dollar question was: how had this girl snagged it? Everyone online was buzzing about this purse, but no one could get one.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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