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Black Friday(n.)
popular name for the day after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday (which always is a Thursday), in modern times the day which opens the Christmas shopping season and thus for stores often the busiest and biggest sales day of the year, but the exact sense of black (adj.) in it is uncertain.
It is attested by 1970 (in Philadelphia newspaper columns), said to be perhaps a merchants' term and a reference to the black ink that records profits. But the early articles also credit the expression to those who had the job of managing the crowds.
At 12th and Market, Traffic Patrolman Stanley Makarewicz took enough time out from conducting his orchestra of exhaust pipes to explain why policemen and cab drivers call it Black Friday.
"It's supposed to be worst day for traffic out of the whole year," the patrolman observed.
["Black Friday: Stores' Best Day," Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 28, 1970]
Earlier Black Friday had been used principally of Fridays when financial markets crashed (1866, 1869, 1873, 1929), the Kennedy assassination (1963) and other dark events.
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blackguard(n.)
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blackhead(n.)
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black-hearted(adj.)
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blackie(n.)
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blackish(adj.)
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blackjack(n.)
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blackleg(n.)
"骗子",最初特指马术比赛中的骗子,始于1771年,源自 black(形容词)+ leg(名词),但确切的意义不确定。
The term implies the habitual frequenting of places where wagers are made and games of chance are played, and the seeking of subsistence by dishonorable betting, but does not always imply direct cheating. Sometimes contracted to leg. [Century Dictionary]
该术语意味着经常光顾下注和赌博场所,并通过不光彩的赌博谋生,但并不总是意味着直接作弊。有时缩写为 leg。[世纪词典]
从1865年开始用于拒绝加入工会的罢工破坏者和工人。
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black-letter(n., adj.)
哥特式字体的名称,指旧式的哥特式字体,起源于1640年代,源自 black(形容词); 当时称之为区分重型印刷字体和轻型印刷字体(现代主流形式)的方式。德国一种黑体字体风格一直保留到20世纪。
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blackly(adv.)