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Meaning:
Adjective:
- Bad; evil.
- board games|chess The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set, no matter what the actual colour.
- Ireland|idiomatic Overcrowded.
- of an object absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and colourless.
- of a place, etc without light.
- of Lacking cream, milk, and creamer.
- sometimes capitalized, mostly U.S. Relating to persons of African descent or their culture.
- Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
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Noun:
- A black dye, pigment.
- A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
- baseball The edge of home plate
- British a type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
- billiards|snooker|pool '''the black''': The black ball.
- in plural Black cloth hung up at funerals.
- sometimes capitalised A person of African descent.
- The colour/color perceived in the absence of light.
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Verb:
- British To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
- To apply blacking to something.
- To make black, to blacken.
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