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black-books

black-books is the third-person singular simple present indicative of black-book.

Meaning of black-book

Verb

black-book (third-person singular simple present black-books, present participle black-booking, simple past and past participle black-booked)

  1. (informal, transitive) To censure (someone); to enter someone's name in a black book; to blacklist someone.
    • "Let me have a look at it," said the headmaster. "I see Mr. Gordon has black-booked you for 'gross impertinence.' What was it?"1915, William Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

Questions about black-books

What is black-books the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Black-books is the third-person singular simple present indicative of black-book.

Words near black-books in the dictionary

  1. black-billed magpie
  2. black-billed magpies
  3. black-book
  4. black-booked
  5. black-booking
  6. black-books
  7. black-bottom
  8. black-bottom pie
  9. black-bottom pies
  10. black-bottomed
  11. black-bottoming

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Adapted from Wiktionary: black-books (page history and authors); black-book (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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