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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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