skull
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7.3
- noun
- /skʌl/
- Jargon
:
calavera
- We had a disagreement about who the skull belonged to.
- skull and crossbones
- skull logo
Examples
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Zak Penn says there was discussion to use Red Skull as the villain in The Avengers.
Blog text (5) -
Hazmat pulls out a vial marked with a red skull and crossbones and shows it to Frank.
Fiction book (1999) -
The person who gets the skull has to do the round and everybody has to be quiet.
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Hate to break up the skull session.
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Serves me right for drinking anything with a flying skull on it.
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So we started to do that not even just in seven but in the episode before with Skull and Bones, to start, like, talking again about what the show is really about.
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Valdez, dressed in high-fashion black with a skull on her back, parodied the ubiquitous Virgen de Guadalupe.
Academic text (1999) -
In the multiplayer game, activating the skull modifier made the enemies much tougher to defeat.
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During our session, we discussed strategies to tackle the challenges introduced by the skull gameplay feature.
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After collecting three skulls, players must complete a challenging quest to unlock special rewards.
Idioms
Compounds
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4.2
A symbol showing a skull above two crossed bones that warns people of poison or danger
How Difficult
- Jargon
- Jargon
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7.3
Surface Forms
Etymology
Skull is a strong sign of 'danger' or 'death'—think of the famous 'skull and crossbones'—so in games a skull mark or modifier shows a tougher, more dangerous rule or challenge.