Definitions for blacks

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Spelling: [blak]

IPA: /blæk/

Blacks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 2 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in blacks (abckls).

Definitions for blacks

noun

1. the color at one extreme end of the scale of grays, opposite to white, absorbing all light incident upon it. Compare white (def 19).
2. (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of any of various dark-skinned peoples, especially those of Africa, Oceania, and Australia. Often Offensive. African American.
3. black clothing, especially as a sign of mourning:
4. Chess, Checkers. the dark-colored men or pieces or squares.
5. black pigment:
6. Slang. black beauty.
7. a horse or other animal that is entirely black.

Idioms

1. black and white, print or writing: a monochromatic picture done with black and white only. a chocolate soda containing vanilla ice cream. Slang. a highly recognizable police car, used to patrol a community.
2. black or white, completely either one way or another, without any intermediate state.
3. in the black, operating at a profit or being out of debt (opposed to in the red):

adverb

1. (of coffee or tea) served without milk or cream.

adjective

1. lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
2. characterized by absence of light; enveloped in darkness:
3. (sometimes initial capital letter) pertaining or belonging to any of the various populations characterized by dark skin pigmentation, specifically the dark-skinned peoples of Africa, Oceania, and Australia. African American.
4. soiled or stained with dirt:
5. gloomy; pessimistic; dismal:
6. deliberately; harmful; inexcusable:
7. boding ill; sullen or hostile; threatening:
8. (of coffee or tea) without milk or cream.
9. without any moral quality or goodness; evil; wicked:
10. indicating censure, disgrace, or liability to punishment:
11. marked by disaster or misfortune:
12. wearing black or dark clothing or armor:
13. based on the grotesque, morbid, or unpleasant aspects of life:
14. (of a check mark, flag, etc.) done or written in black to indicate, as on a list, that which is undesirable, substandard, potentially dangerous, etc.:
15. illegal or underground:
16. showing a profit; not showing any losses:
17. deliberately false or intentionally misleading:
18. British. boycotted, as certain goods or products by a trade union.
19. (of steel) in the form in which it comes from the rolling mill or forge; unfinished.

Verb phrases

1. black out, to lose consciousness: to erase, obliterate, or suppress: to forget everything relating to a particular event, person, etc.: Theater. to extinguish all of the stage lights. to make or become inoperable: Military. to obscure by concealing all light in defense against air raids. Radio and Television. to impose a broadcast blackout on (an area). to withdraw or cancel (a special fare, sale, discount, etc.) for a designated period:

verb (used with object)

1. to make black; put black on; blacken.
2. British. to boycott or ban.
3. to polish (shoes, boots, etc.) with blacking.

verb (used without object)

1. to become black; take on a black color; blacken.

Origin of blacks

before 900; Middle English blak, Old English blæc; cognate with Old High German blah-; akin to Old Norse blakkr black, blek ink

Examples for blacks

“Moors be not all black, neither be they all worshippers of Mahound,” replied Ambrose.

Even the arguably more democratic House is only at 10 percent black members.

Music is a huge part of the tone of black Dynamite overall—going back to the original 2009 movie on which the series is based.

How far has Congress really evolved on race when in 50 years it has gone from one black senator to two?

But in the case of black women, another study found no lack of interest.

No; it has two stacks; and it's not your people because the Lotus is black.

Many of them were black, and a good share were of the female sex.

A vote was taken on the question of exile, and the black pebbles predominated.

The world that black Dynamite lives in is not the most PC place to be in.

But this slab of black basalt was different from anything that had ever been discovered.