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    [Adjective]  | "black" | \ ˈblak \


    1: having the very dark color of the night sky or the eye's pupil : of the color black

    2: of or relating to any of various population groups of especially African ancestry often considered as having dark pigmentation of the skin but in fact having a wide range of skin colors

    3: of or relating to Black people and often especially to African American people or their culture

    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English blak, blake, going back to Old English blæc, blac "black, (of other colors) dark," going back to West Germanic *blaka- (whence also Old Saxon blak "ink," Middle Low German black, blak, Middle Dutch blak, Old High German blah- only in compounds, as blahfaro "ink-colored, deep blue"), perhaps adjectival derivative of a verb *blakōn- (whence Middle Dutch & Middle Low German blaken "to burn, scorch"), from a verbal base *blak- (whence also Old High German blecken, blec(c)hen "to flash [of lightning], shine, sparkle" < *blakjan-), o-grade ablaut of Indo-European *bhleg- "shine, be bright" {mat|phlegm|};

      * Note : For this etymology to work, the original meaning of *blaka- would have been "burned, scorched," then, by a not implausible shift, "blackened by fire," then simply "black." In Old English, blæc is sometimes spelled blac, which creates potential confusion with blāc "bright, shining, pale, pallid," ordinarily not spelled with any indication of vowel length, and sometimes spelled blæc. In Middle English potential confusion is to some degree increased by lengthening of vowels in open syllables, revealed by such spellings as blaak and blake for blak. Old English blāc emerges in Middle English, in a small number of texts, as blok, though blake) is found in some Midland and northern texts. — Presumably related to *blaka- is an adjective *blank- with infixed —see: {blank:1|blank:1}. In Germanic, alongside *blek-/*blak- there is a semantically similar strong verb with a diphthong *blīk-/*blaik-/*blik- along with an adjective *blaik- "bright," the source of Old English blāc cited above—see: {bleach:1|bleach:1}.;

    [Adjective]  | "black-and-blue" | \ ˌbla-kən-ˈblü \


    1: darkly discolored from blood effused by bruising

    Origin: 1568 ;

    [Adjective]  | "black-and-tan" | \ ˌbla-kən-ˈtan \


    1: having a predominantly black color pattern with deep red or rusty tan usually on the feet, breeching, and cheek patches, above the eyes, and inside the ears

    2: favoring or practicing proportional representation of Black and white people in politics

    3: frequented by both Black and white people

    Origin: 1786 ;

    [Noun]  | "black" 


    1: a pigment or dye of the color black : a black pigment or dye; especially : one consisting largely of carbon

    2: the achromatic color of least lightness characteristically perceived to belong to objects that neither reflect nor transmit light

    3: something that is black: such as

    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English blak, blake, going back to Old English blæc, derivative of blæc {see: |black:1|black:1};

    [Noun]  | "black alder" 


    1: winterberry

    Origin: 1578 ;

    [Noun]  | "black and tan" 


    1: a black-and-tan dog

    2: a drink consisting of a dark beer (such as stout or porter) and ale or beer of a paler color

    3: a recruit enlisted in England in 1920—21 for service in the Royal Irish Constabulary against the armed movement for Irish independence

    Origin: 1840 ;

    [Verb]  | "black" 


    1: to become black : blacken

    2: to make black

    3: to declare (something, such as a business or industry) subject to boycott by trade-union members

    Origin: 13th century ;

     Middle English blaken, derivative of blak, blake {see: |black:1|black:1};

    [Biographical name]  | "Black" | \ ˈblak \


    1: Hugo LaFayette 1886—1971 American jurist and politician

    [Biographical name]  | "Black" 


    1: Sir James Whyte 1924—2010 British pharmacologist

    [Geographical name]  | "Black" 


    1: river 101 miles (162 kilometers) long in east central Louisiana flowing south into the Red River

    2: river 500 miles (805 kilometers) long in southeastern Asia rising in central Yunnan, China, and flowing southeast to the Red River in northern Vietnam

    [Adjective]  | "black" 


    1: having the color of soot or coal;


      * e.g., " ... we adopted a little black kitten "




    2: causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer;


      * e.g., " ... the Friday of the stock market crash was indeed a black day for the country "




    3: not having a light complexion;


      * e.g., " ... a black Irishman, Tyrone Power had the classic looks of a Hollywood leading man "




    [Noun]  | "black" 


    1: a time or place of little or no light;


      * e.g., " ... we had to find our way on back roads in the black of night "




    [Noun]  | "black beast" 


    1: something or someone that causes fear or dread especially without reason;


      * e.g., " ... Form 1040 has always been his personal black beast, and he puts off dealing with it for as long as he can "



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    [Noun]  | "black hole" 


    1: empty space;


      * e.g., " ... discovered that there was a black hole in the library's collection with regard to her topic "



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    [Noun]  | "black market" 


    1: a system through which things are bought and sold illegally;


      * e.g., " ... The black market in prescription drugs is thriving. "



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    [Noun]  | "black eye" 


    2: as in hickey;


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    [Noun]  | "black eyes" 


    2: as in hickeys;


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    [Noun]  | "black flag" 


    1: as in white flag, Jolly Roger;


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    [Verb]  | "black" 


    1: as in boycott, blackball;



    [Verb]  | "black out" 


    1: to destroy all traces of;


      * e.g., " ... had spent most of her adulthood trying to black out memories of a wretched childhood "




    2: to grow dark;


      * e.g., " ... with the delivery of the knockout punch, the screen blacks out, and in the next scene the boxer wakes up in the hospital "




    3: to lose consciousness;


      * e.g., " ... blacked out after hitting her head on the beam "



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     [ "black" ]

    1: aaa a aaa a don belive itt JEROME U ARE A DIRTY LIAR

      * e.g.,  ... JEROME Y U BLACK ARE U ANCESTORS NIGERIAN AH 

     [ "black" ]

    1: Slang for asphalt, a substance used to surface roads, paths, etc.

      * e.g.,  ... We took out some black and fixed all the potholes in town. 

     [ "black" ]

    1: the color this text appears in

      * e.g.,  ... this text appears in black 

     [ "black" ]

    1: Contrary to popular belief black is not a color which makes the whole racial meaning to it kinda ironic.

      * e.g.,  ... Black is not a color. 

     [ "black" ]

    2: Also se white.

     [ "black" ]

    1: Black tar heroin. Typically found in the western part of US.

      * e.g.,  ... Hey man smoke me out some of that black. 

     [ "black" ]

    1: Considered a color. However, it really represents the absorption of all other colors in the spectrum, in a similar (but inverse) way white reflects all other colors. The opposite of white.

      * e.g.,  ... I see a red door and I want to paint it black. 

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    2: Also, a supposedly slimming color on obese femals (it doesn't work ladies).

     [ "black" ]

    1: When something doesn't work

      * e.g.,  ... "I can't make a folder, MySpace is being black. And by black I mean not working" 

     [ "black" ]

    1:  Darkest shaded of color

      * e.g.,  ... Today Black people live on every continent however they are most commonly found in sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribean, and the Americas. The term black is sometimes applied to the aboriginals of Australia however they are desecended from homo S. Sapian's original out of Africa migration, and thus are only black in a skin color descriptive sense, and not in a racial, genetic, or ethnic sense. Because of America's one drop rule, the term black is also sometimes applied to people with only half-black ancestry such as Halle Barry, and Bob Marley, however these people have a roughly equal mix of black and non-black ancestry, and thus are only black in a socio-political sense, and are more accurately described as multi-racial. 

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    2:  Racial/ethnic term: A black is a person with a majority of ancestors that stayed in sub-Saharan African during homo S. Sapian's original exodus from the continent. Blacks are the most genetically diverse race on Earth including some of the world's tallest (watusi) and shortest (pygmies) ethnic groups.

     [ "black" ]

    1: Version used before "on"

      * e.g.,  ... Don't tell her she's a hoe; she might black on you. 

     [ "black" ]

    2: When someone gives you crazy lip

     [ "black" ]

    1: The short name for a Black & Mild Cigar, produced by Middleton. Usually has a plastic or wooden tip, and comes in different flavors. Typically, when smoking a black you first "freak" the cigar which means to remove the tobacco in order to take out the layer of paper which gives the cigar its artificial flavor. The tobacco is then put back. This process usually makes the cigar taste better and also smoke more easily.

      * e.g.,  ... You wanna hit this black? I'm gonna go get a box of blacks. 

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