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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To signal (the driver of a racing car) to proceed immediately to the pits.

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Examples

  • Lastly, the city activists of Rationalist Political Party are likely to stage black-flag demonstration as their “fight is against Puducherry becoming another Hong Kong or Thailand” a prospect for which they hold the arrival of Sri Aurobindo solely responsible.

    Aurchlives, Aehton, and April flower Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • Lastly, the city activists of Rationalist Political Party are likely to stage black-flag demonstration as their “fight is against Puducherry becoming another Hong Kong or Thailand” a prospect for which they hold the arrival of Sri Aurobindo solely responsible.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • The howling, murdering, black-flag waving, mad, and drunken crowd of devils that had overcome us by numbers and by treachery?

    The Perils of Certain English Prisoners 2007

  • The howling, murdering, black-flag waving, mad, and drunken crowd of devils that had overcome us by numbers and by treachery?

    The Perils of Certain English Prisoners 2007

  • One hundred black-flag Taaisha, the Khalifa's own Baggara tribesmen and part of his body-guard, charged impetuously.

    Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

  • The howling, murdering, black-flag waving, mad, and drunken crowd of devils that had overcome us by numbers and by treachery?

    Perils of Certain English Prisoners Charles Dickens 1841

  • CPI's youth outfit AIYF, however, held a black-flag demonstration outside the airport demanding the resignation of Tharoor as the Lok Sabha member from Thiruvananthapuram.

    Analysis 2010

  • PSBJC supporters held black-flag processions in several areas of the three Maoist-affected districts - Paschim Medinipur, Bankura and Purulia - on the day in protest against the meeting between the Union Home Minister and the Chief Ministers.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

  • Saturday promises to be packed with black-flag action, so I may not have a chance to check in with an update until the evening.

    Jalopnik Murilee Martin 2010

  • CPI's youth outfit AIYF, however, held a black-flag demonstration outside the airport demanding the resignation of Tharoor as the Lok Sabha member from Thiruvananthapuram.

    Analysis 2010

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