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black

1. Of coffee, served or consumed without cream or sugar. I like my coffee black. A: "Would you like any cream or sugar in your coffee?" B: "No, black is fine, thanks."
2. Having morbid or grisly elements. Usually used in contrast or complement to satiric humor. The director's new black comedy offers a biting critique of modern capitalism. The play is full of pitch-black humor that will make you chuckle while squirming with discomfort.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

black

mod. without cream or milk. (Said of coffee.) Black coffee, good and hot, please.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (as) black as (one) is painted
  • (as) black as (one's) hat
  • (as) black as a raven
  • (as) black as a raven's feather
  • (as) black as a raven's wing
  • (as) black as a skillet
  • (as) black as a stack of black cats
  • (as) black as a sweep
  • (as) black as coal
  • (as) black as ink
  • (as) black as Newgate's knocker
  • (as) black as night
  • (as) black as pitch
  • (as) black as the ace of spades
  • (as) black as the devil
  • (as) black as the minister's coat
  • (as) black as thunder
  • (good) black don't crack
  • a black box
  • a black day
  • a black eye
  • a black look
  • a black mark
  • a black mark against (one)
  • a black mark against someone
  • a black mark beside (one's) name
  • a black spot
  • a dirty look
  • a/the black sheep
  • as clear as black and white
  • back of the black stump
  • be (not) as black as (someone or something) is painted
  • be in (one's) black books
  • be in someone's black books
  • be in the black
  • beyond the black stump
  • black
  • black and blue
  • black and white
  • black as a skillet
  • black as night
  • black as night/pitch/the ace of spades
  • black as one is painted
  • black as pitch
  • black babies
  • black book
  • black book, (put) in one's
  • black box
  • black eye
  • Black Friday
  • black gold
  • black gum
  • black hat
  • black hole
  • black list
  • Black Lives Matter
  • black look
  • black magic
  • Black Maria
  • black mark
  • black mark beside name
  • black market
  • black on black
  • black out
  • black rider
  • Black Russian
  • black sheep
  • black sheep of the family
  • black stump
  • black tie
  • black triangle
  • Black Twitter
  • black up
  • black-and-blue
  • black-collar worker
  • black-collar workers
  • blackfishing
  • black-hearted
  • blacklist
  • black-silk barge
  • devil is not so black as he is painted
  • dirty look, give a
  • early black
  • get (something) down in black and white
  • get (something) in black and white
  • get a black eye
  • give (someone or something) a black eye
  • give a black eye to (someone or something)
  • give someone a black eye
  • he, it, etc. is not as black as he, it, etc. is painted
  • in (someone's) black books
  • in black and white
  • in the black
  • in the red
  • little black book
  • look (as) black as thunder
  • look black
  • not all black and white
  • not as black as (one) is painted
  • not as black as you are painted
  • of the blackest dye
  • once you go black, you never go back
  • paint (one) black
  • paint a black picture (of someone or something)
  • paint black
  • paint the black
  • pitch black
  • pot calling the kettle black, the
  • pot is calling the kettle black
  • pretend (that) black is white
  • put (something) down in black and white
  • put down in black and white
  • saintly black character
  • say (that) black is white
  • set (something) down in black and white
  • swear (that) black is white
  • swear black is white
  • the black dog
  • the black market
  • the black ox has trod upon (one's) foot
  • the black ox has trod upon (one's) toe
  • the black sheep
  • the black sheep of the family
  • the devil is not so black as he is painted
  • the new black
  • the pot calling the kettle black
  • the pot is calling the kettle black
  • there is a black sheep in every flock
  • this side of the black stump
References in classic literature
"How strange," said a lady, "that a simple black veil, such as any woman might wear on her bonnet, should become such a terrible thing on Mr.
The black veil, though it covers only our pastor's face, throws its influence over his whole person, and makes him ghostlike from head to foot.
Here a little knot of struggling warriors trampled a bed of gorgeous pimalia; there the curved sword of a black man found the heart of a thern and left its dead foeman at the foot of a wondrous statue carved from a living ruby; yonder a dozen therns pressed a single pirate back upon a bench of emerald, upon whose iridescent surface a strangely beautiful Barsoomian design was traced out in inlaid diamonds.
"It is Val Dor, Princess," the warrior replied, "and here to die for you if need be, as is every wearer of the Black upon this field of jetan today.
I shall be afraid to leave you here with these devilish scoundrels." But when she put the suggestion to Usanga the black immediately suspected some plan to thwart him--possibly to carry him against his will back to the German masters he had traitorously deserted, and glowering at her savagely, he obstinately refused to entertain the suggestion.
With a loud roar, Black Michael attracted the attention of the others, and, pointing to Lord and Lady Greystoke, cried:
He was very sick, this white man, as sick as the black men who lay helpless about him, and whom he attended.
"Wonder if this works with strings," said Dorothy; but Polychrome cried "Look!" for another creature just like the first had suddenly appeared sitting on another rock, its black side toward them.
This little group had in its advance dragged inward, so to speak, the circumference of the now almost complete circle of people, and a number of dim black figures followed it at discreet distances.
And when they cut long stakes, sharpened at their upper ends, and set them at intervals upright in the bottom of the pit, his wonderment but increased, nor was it satisfied with the placing of the light cross-poles over the pit, or the careful arrangement of leaves and earth which completely hid from view the work the black men had performed.
The man was greeted with shouts of welcome from his fellows, to whom he imparted all that he knew and guessed of the actions of their master, so that the entire safari was aware of matters before Baynes, who marched close to the head of the column, was reached and acquainted with the facts and the imaginings of the black boy whom Malbihn had deserted in the clearing the night before.
'You must know,' answered the black girl, 'that the Fairy in whose power we both are is my own mother, but you must not betray this secret, for it would cost me my life.
Just beyond the ridge he came within sight of the fleeing black, making with headlong leaps for a long war-canoe that was drawn well up upon the beach above the high tide surf.
This god on the deck beside him was more like a black. Not only did he not wear pants, and was barefooted and barelegged, but about his middle, just like any black, he wore a brilliant-coloured loin- cloth, that, like a kilt, fell nearly to his sunburnt knees.
Suddenly the door opened and a woman in a black gown rushed in with outstretched arms.