black
- adjective
- /blæk/
- At opposite ends of the room, we sip the same black coffee at the same time.
And also this is like the black matte coffee.
- And also this is like the black matte coffee.
- I also had, I also had black coffee, even worse.
- This gives me time to grab my first black cold brew of the day.
- I'm just drinking black coffee water the whole day.
- So maybe coffee, black coffee, black coffee or some herbal tea.
- Like, should you have to drink black coffee in real life?
- And then she goes black and I go, yeah, she goes no cream.
Examples
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Erin had brought along a thermos of strong, black coffee that night they had hidden in the library.
Fiction book (1991) -
Men gather here to drink black coffee, talk politics, and share their health problems.
Academic text (2007) -
Uh, can I have a black coffee please?
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With nothing in it, it's black coffee.
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Just a cup of black coffee, please.
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"It's taken me years to learn to drink coffee black," he says, "that way I'll never be disappointed."
Fiction book (1991) -
This morning I'm having a black coffee and some oatmeal.
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Black coffee.
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"Wild Bill poured Boyle a double bourbon and slid Quinn a cup of black coffee without asking."
Fiction book (1995) -
Can I please have a black coffee without any sugar?
Antonyms
Idioms
A sign that dark clouds are coming and rain may fall, or a joke that things only seem bad
Compounds
- Specialized
An area of space with gravity so strong that not even light can escape it
A group of Black American activists in the 1960s who fought police abuse and fought for equal rights
- Specialized
A device on an airplane that records flight information and pilot voices
A very skilled person in martial arts like karate or judo who wears a dark band at the waist
A thing, like a failing project, that uses a lot of time or money and gives nothing back
A member of the Black Panther Party who fought for equal rights for African Americans in the 1960s
- Formal
A formal evening dress code for men that requires a black jacket and bow tie
- US
A venomous spider from the Americas whose female is black with a red hourglass on the underside of its body
A sea between southeastern Europe and western Asia that borders countries like Turkey and Ukraine
- Specialized
A system whose inner parts are hidden so you only see what goes in and what comes out
A fictional king and superhero from Marvel who uses advanced technology to protect his people
- Specialized
A lung disease from breathing coal dust for a long time that often affects miners
- US
A person who follows the Nation of Islam, a religious group among African Americans in the United States
A severe disease in the Middle Ages that spread across Europe and killed millions
- Literature
A play or film that makes serious subjects, especially taboo ones, seem funny
A range of mountains in South Dakota and Wyoming, home to Mount Rushmore and sacred to the Sioux
- NSFW
A Palestinian armed group that carried out attacks in other countries in the early 1970s
- Specialized
An object that absorbs all light and other kinds of radiation that hit it
- Specialized
A person with advanced Six Sigma training who leads projects to improve how a company works
- Specialized
A serious lung illness caused by breathing coal dust over many years, often in miners
- Jargon
A secret action that hides who did it, often for political or military reasons
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word black in 'black coffee' comes from the dark color of coffee without milk, so black coffee simply means the drink is dark and plain.