blacks

/blæks/ · noun

Meaning

The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
A black dye or pigment.
A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
(in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
(sometimes capitalised) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
Blackness, the condition of having dark skin.
To make black; to blacken.
To apply blacking to (something).
To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

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