A (male) member of an ethnic group having dark pigmentation of the skin, typically of sub-Saharan African descent.
An evil spirit, a demon.
Black people collectively; black culture.
The state's policy of "separate but equal" was really about keeping the black man down.
Used other than as an idiom: see black, man.
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