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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--Jolly Roger This week's theme: words related to pirates. Jolly Roger (JOL-ee ROJ-uhr) noun The pirates' flag, showing a white skull and crossbones on a black background. Also known as the blackjack or black flag. [The origin of the name Jolly Roger is uncertain.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Guest Wordsmith John (Ol' Chumbucket) Baur (chumbucketATtalklikeapirate.com) "Three men were eventually spotted, not in a three-master with a Jolly Roger flapping in the breeze, but in powerboat near Bayvista Lane." Jonathan Jenkins; Pirates on the High ... Lake? Toronto Sun (Canada); Sep 9, 2006. X-Bonus Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. -Suzanne Necker, author (1739-1794)

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