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Blacker

//ˈblækɚ// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    comparative form of black: more black comparative, form-of
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    One who blacks (in various senses).

    "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 […]"

  2. 2
    Someone who creates black MIDI music.

    "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."

Etymology

From black + -er.

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