Crossword clues for crossbones
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crossbones \Cross"bones`\ (kr[o^]s"b[=o]nz`), n. pl. A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death.
Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious
emblems of mortality.
--Hawthorne.
Wiktionary
n. A representation of two bones crossed diagonally, especially as a symbol of danger or death
WordNet
n. two crossed bones (or a representation of two crossed bones) used as a symbol danger or death
Wikipedia
Crossbones (Brock Rumlow) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, usually depicted as an adversary of the superhero Captain America. Created by writer Mark Gruenwald and artist Kieron Dwyer, the character first appeared in Captain America #359 (October 1989). Crossbones usually appears as an ally of the Red Skull. He carried out the assassination of Captain America, although a hypnotized Sharon Carter is believed to have fired the fatal shots.
Over the years, the character has appeared in various forms of media, including animated television series and video games. Most notably, actor Frank Grillo has portrayed Crossbones in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Crossbones may refer to:
- Crossbones (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
- CrossBones (film), an American horror film
- Crossbones (TV series), a 2014 American television drama series
- Cross Bones, a disused burial ground in Southwark, London
- Cross Bones (novel), a 2005 novel by Kathy Reichs
CrossBones is a 2005 American horror film about the curse of a deadly pirate being unleashed upon reality television contestants. The film is directed by Daniel Zirilli who also co-wrote and co-produced it.
Crossbones is an American television series that aired on the NBC network from May 30 to August 2, 2014. The series is a fictionalization of the life of the pirate Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, who is still alive in 1729. The show was created by Neil Cross, James V. Hart, and Amanda Welles.
The network announced the series in May 2012 with a straight-to-series commitment. Ten episodes were ordered, and production began in Puerto Rico on October 15, 2013. The show was originally supposed to be a part of NBC's midseason schedule, but it was later pushed to summer. The series premiered on May 30, 2014, at 10:00 pm EDT.
Crossbones is based on Colin Woodard's book The Republic of Pirates. Georgeville Television, which had been participating as a production company, dropped out of the project in 2013. On July 24, 2014, NBC announced that Crossbones had been canceled, and the final two episodes were removed from the schedule. However, both episodes were later aired on August 2, 2014.
Usage examples of "crossbones".
She was making a sandwich which consisted of two pieces of bread, a pile of alfalfa spouts and a half a bottle of hot sauce marked with a skull and crossbones.
It's a name he took from the black an' white Jolly Roger flag with the skull an' crossbones, the one pirates flew on their ships in the Caribbean.
Yet he doesn't like it when Mama quotes Mark Twain, who has recently written that Old Glory should be changed to a pirate flag, with black stripes and each star a skull and crossbones.
It was after a night like this that I shocked the community with a queer conceit about the burial of the rich and celebrated Squire Brewster, a maker of local history who was interred in 1711, and whose slate headstone, bearing a graven skull and crossbones, was slowly crumbling to powder.
He could feel the needle of a drug-drip, intravenously feeding him the contents of an upended bottle labeled with a skull and crossbones.
Off to the side were two Anansi-shaped craft emblazoned with skull and crossbones.
The chunky silver with the skull and crossbones, the ruby signet and the gold sovereign.
Was it time to do something with the spike so it would be safer than it was in his pack back at the Skull and Crossbones?
Not quite stores -they had markings on them, and lettering in French, with the skull and crossbones prominent on the cylinders where they showed through the slats.
He took out a brimmed cap with the Nazi eagle on the crown and the SS skull and crossbones on the band, and tossed it on the opposite seat.