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"Black" Definition

noun

A member of a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin.
A pigment or dye having this color value.
An American descended from peoples of African origin having brown to black skin; an African American.
Clothing of the darkest hue, especially such clothing worn for mourning.
Complete or almost complete absence of light; darkness.

adjective

Appearing to emanate from a source other than the actual point of origin. Used chiefly of intelligence operations: black propaganda; black radio transmissions.
Attended with disaster; calamitous: a black day; the stock market crash on Black Friday.
Being of the color black, producing or reflecting comparatively little light and having no predominant hue.
Being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor: a black comedy.
Cheerless and depressing; gloomy: black thoughts.

phrasal-verb

Black out To cause a failure of electrical power in: Storm damage blacked out much of the region.
Black out To extinguish all the lights on (a stage).
Black out To extinguish or conceal all lights that might help enemy aircraft find a target during an air raid.
Black out To lose consciousness or memory temporarily: blacked out at the podium.
Black out To prohibit the dissemination of, especially by censorship: blacked out the news issuing from the rebel provinces.

verb-transitive

Chiefly British To boycott as part of a labor union action.
To apply blacking to: blacked the stove.
To make black: blacked their faces with charcoal.

idiom

In the black On the credit side of a ledger; prosperous.

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