Examples
“The back of his shirt was peppered with sweat by midday, and while the blacks ate their sandwiches of company-store balogna and potted meat in a grove of gum trees, he tethered his horse under a solitary live oak in the middle of a pepper field and sat in a folding chair a black man hand-carried to him for that purpose.”
“At sunset an elderly black man named Batist helped me close up the bait shop and chain-lock our rental boats to the pilings under the dock.”
“About the time we lived across from River Bend, our momma had an old black man who worked for her named Les.”
““Many times in my career I was complimented on my surgical technique,” Dr. Spencer said, “and I will admit that a good many people were shocked when I told them I learned my surgical technique from a black man who had only a high school education.””
“In a 1996 case in Brooklyn, several Crown Heights Shomrim members were accused of beating a black man whose nephew they suspected of bike theft.”
“Her body was found just before dawn the next morning by a black man who was running his trotlines in the swamp.”
“And Jewish Americans like Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were willing to die alongside a black man – James Chaney – on behalf of freedom and equality.”
“As I mentioned earlier, a black man on top is a threat in America, but also some in the community felt he did a disservice to black women with songs like “Me So Horny” and “Pop That Coochie.””
“He led a team that included three other lawyers to represent Hernando Williams, a black man who in 1978 was charged with kidnapping, raping and shooting Linda Goldstone, who was white and the wife of a prominent Chicago obstetrician.”
“Dude," said Lash Jefferson, a wiry black man with a newly shaved scalp, wearing mirror shades.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘black man’.
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Man
Everything that contains a man in it
taxman, salesman, common man, spaceman, neolithic man, straw man, seaman, fireman, spiderman, overman, old man, con man and 373 more...
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The Devil and His Imps
Names of 'the Devil himself, the devils his "flaming ministers", household goblins, rural demons, bogles, sprites, and fairies of all kinds' mentioned in Charles P.G. Scott's 'The Devil and His Imp...
devil, devilet, deviling, dablet, black angel, black man, black bear, black bull, black dog, bogle, bogie, boggard and 128 more...
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FUN - changing colours
Collocations in which the original meaning of the colour word is changed and denotates another colour (white wine actually has a yellowish-greenish colour) . No abstract uses of colours are listed...
white wine, white coffee, white man, black man, blue moon, Black Sea, Red Sea, green gold, white god
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vanishedone Yes, it's an old name for an evil spirit or devil (possibly attested from 1591 according to the O.E.D.). One of the less fortunate parts of folklore. Jan 12, 2009