blacker
See also: Blacker
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈblækɚ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ækə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰlogós?
Proto-Germanic *blakaz
Proto-West Germanic *blak
Old English blæc
Middle English blak
English black
English blacker
Noun
blacker (plural blackers)
- One who blacks (in various senses).
- 1895, The Gopher: Annual Publication of the Student Body of the University of Minnesota:
- Then "G. A. R." did shoulder his burden and with much labor made footprints for a hostelry afar off, where he might put it in for safe keeping, while the venders of papers and the ragged blackers of boots followed in his train and pelted him […]
- (music) Someone who creates black MIDI music.
- 2013 December 30, Matt Earp, “Meet the 15-Year-Old Boy King of Black MIDI”, in VICE[1], archived from the original on 26 October 2023:
- Blackers across the globe, many of them teens and preteens, are embroiled in a ferocious game of one-upsmanship, battling to see how many notes they can cram into a single composition. First it was 100K, then 500K, then a million—now upwards of five million notes are common.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Adjective
blacker
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