black
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black
1. Of coffee, served or consumed without cream or sugar. I like my coffee black. A: "Would you like any cream or sugar in your coffee?" B: "No, black is fine, thanks."
2. Having morbid or grisly elements. Usually used in contrast or complement to satiric humor. The director's new black comedy offers a biting critique of modern capitalism. The play is full of pitch-black humor that will make you chuckle while squirming with discomfort.
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black
mod. without cream or milk. (Said of coffee.) Black coffee, good and hot, please.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
- (a bit) black over Bill's mother's
- (as) black as (one) is painted
- (as) black as (one's) hat
- (as) black as a raven
- (as) black as a raven's feather
- (as) black as a raven's wing
- (as) black as a skillet
- (as) black as a stack of black cats
- (as) black as a sweep
- (as) black as coal
- (as) black as ink
- (as) black as Newgate's knocker
- (as) black as night
- (as) black as pitch
- (as) black as the ace of spades
- (as) black as the devil
- (as) black as the minister's coat
- (as) black as thunder
- (good) black don't crack
- a black box
- a black day
- a black eye
- a black look
- a black mark
- a black mark against (one)
- a black mark against someone
- a black mark beside (one's) name
- a black spot
- a dirty look
- a/the black sheep
- as clear as black and white
- back of the black stump
- be (not) as black as (someone or something) is painted
- be in (one's) black books
- be in someone's black books
- be in the black
- beyond the black stump
- black
- black and blue
- black and white
- black as a skillet
- black as night
- black as night/pitch/the ace of spades
- black as one is painted
- black as pitch
- black babies
- black book
- black book, (put) in one's
- black box
- black eye
- Black Friday
- black gold
- black gum
- black hat
- black hole
- black list
- Black Lives Matter
- black look
- black magic
- Black Maria
- black mark
- black mark beside name
- black market
- black on black
- black out
- black rider
- Black Russian
- black sheep
- black sheep of the family
- black stump
- black tie
- black triangle
- Black Twitter
- black up
- black-and-blue
- black-collar worker
- black-collar workers
- blackfishing
- black-hearted
- blacklist
- black-silk barge
- devil is not so black as he is painted
- dirty look, give a
- early black
- get (something) down in black and white
- get (something) in black and white
- get a black eye
- give (someone or something) a black eye
- give a black eye to (someone or something)
- give someone a black eye
- he, it, etc. is not as black as he, it, etc. is painted
- in (someone's) black books
- in black and white
- in the black
- in the red
- little black book
- look (a bit) black over Bill's mother's
- look (as) black as thunder
- look black
- not (all) black and white
- not all black and white
- not as black as (one) is painted
- not as black as you are painted
- of the blackest dye
- once you go black, you never go back
- paint (one) black
- paint a black picture (of someone or something)
- paint black
- paint the black
- pitch black
- pot calling the kettle black, the
- pot is calling the kettle black
- pretend (that) black is white
- put (someone) in (one's) black book(s)
- put (something) down in black and white
- put down in black and white
- saintly black character
- say (that) black is white
- set (something) down in black and white
- swear (that) black is white
- swear black is white
- the black dog
- the black market
- the black ox has trod upon (one's) foot
- the black ox has trod upon (one's) toe
- the black sheep
- the black sheep of the family
- the devil is not so black as he is painted
- the new black
- the pot calling the kettle black
- the pot is calling the kettle black
- there is a black sheep in every flock
- this side of the black stump