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say it: KRAWS-bohnz
crossbones is a noun meaning "two crossed bones (or a representation of two crossed bones) used as a symbol danger or death". It is pronounced /ˈkɹɔsˌboʊnz/ — KRAWS-bohnz. It carries one recorded sense.
two crossed bones (or a representation of two crossed bones) used as a symbol danger or death
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for crossbones come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.