"blacks" in the noun sense
1. black, blackness, inkiness
the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
2. total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black
total absence of light
"they fumbled around in total darkness"
"in the black of night"
3. Black, Joseph Black
British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
4. Black, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple
popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
5. Black, African-American, Negro, Negroid
a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today
6. black
board games) the darker pieces
7. black
black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning
"the widow wore black"
"blacks" in the verb sense
1. blacken, melanize, melanise, black
make or become black
"The smoke blackened the ceiling"
"The ceiling blackened"
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