man in black
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Man in Black¹
Where it comes from
Derived from the fact that Cash regularly performed live music whilst wearing black clothes.
proper noun the Man in Black
- The country musician Johnny Cash. The Man In Black was long and lean / Hit the Billboard charts with a Teenage Queen / Had a television show, the best we'd seen / That chick-a-boom rock really made a splash / Missing ol' Johnny Cash
man in black²
noun men in black
- The referee.
- A covert government operative, wearing a black suit and black aviator sunglasses, believed by conspiracy theorists to cover up UFO incidents. Ever since the cessation of activity by Albert Bender in 1954, and followed closely by a few others, whose disappear[a]nce though less spectacular, from this field of work, caused a stir among the then active workers; the words he used in reference to his case "that he had been visited by three men
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title = {man in black},
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year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/man%20in%20black},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
