black belt
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- noun
- /blæk bɛlt/
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- Over the course of several years, he worked his way up to become a fifth-degree black belt.
- black belt karate
- black belt in judo
- black belt in Taekwondo
I grew up doing martial arts and have a black belt in Taekwondo.
- I grew up doing martial arts and have a black belt in Taekwondo.
- I had one guy that was teaching with me, a black belt, middle weight.
- And what's great about this is Rich Byrne is a black belt from New York who's in the banking world.
- I'm Dennis Dennis, black belt Taekwondo.
- And what's the kind of like white belt, blue belt, black belt version or however you would like to answer that?
- So he he got me up to be in a brown belt, almost a black belt.
- Dante Rivera, incredible black belt, professional fighter and beat the brakes off of him.
- My dad was a black belt and when we were young he put me in a school in Sherwood, AR.
- Twice a week I roll with Mike Velez, great human being black belt comes to BK strength and and we train and drill and then roll.
- I mean, if somebody was a white belt and a black belt, you got to accept that there's a hierarchy there and there is.
- I reminded her that she enrolled in BJJ class when she dated ABJJ black belt, but she never stepped into a gym again after they broke up.
- For me the black belt was the ceremonial belt which is not usually the case because I fought the wars.
- She's a nurse and a five time world champion black belt karate in the men's league.
Examples
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So one of the guys who were on our team was a black belt in karate.
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So I think they had four fighting teams and the the top team were all all black belts, some of them international players.
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I had one guy that was teaching with me, a black belt, middle weight.
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And I found a great coach, a black belt who was willing to come to me.
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How long does it take to get a black belt in that?
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Yeah, I'm a 3rd degree black belt.
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For your information, Sergeant, I have a black belt in karate.
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I grew up doing martial arts and have a black belt in Taekwondo.
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Jesse's trying to get his black belt in karate by Christmas Day.
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He is a skilled martial artist, having achieved his black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
How Skilled
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Surface Forms
Morphology
black + belt
Literally 'black belt' is compositional (a belt that is black) and is widely used in martial arts to denote a high rank; the Six Sigma sense is a metaphorical extension of that rank sense to professional certification. A B1 learner who knows only the constituent words would not reliably infer the domain-specific Six Sigma meaning without prior exposure or knowledge of the martial-arts metaphor, so the relation is partial rather than fully transparent.
Etymology
Black belt comes from martial arts such as karate and judo, where students wear colored belts. The black belt showed long training and high skill, so black belt means 'a person who has achieved a high level of skill'.