black flag

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Noun

black flag (plural black flags)

  1. Any flag that has a black, or predominantly black, color, (especially):
    1. A flag with a black color, used as a symbol of anarchism.
    2. A racing flag with a black color, used in auto racing to summon a driver to the pits.

Coordinate terms

colours of flags

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Verb

black flag (third-person singular simple present black flags, present participle black flagging, simple past and past participle black flagged)

  1. (transitive) To summon (a racing driver) to the pits by waving a black flag.
    • 1994, Shelby Cobra, page 112:
      Jack Sears was driving the famous John Willment Cobra roadster "39PH." Sears was black flagged, and after returning to the track, drove a race that is still talked about today.
    • 2000, Mark Martin, NASCAR For Dummies, page 87:
      When a driver is black-flagged, he knows it.

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