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Black Thursday

Black Thursday proper noun: the day when the New York Stock Exchange crashed before the Great Depression; Thursday, October 24th, 1929.

Proper noun

Black Thursday

  1. (historical) The day when the New York Stock Exchange crashed before the Great Depression; Thursday, October 24th, 1929.
  2. (historical) March 12, 2020, as part of the 2020 stock market crash; the day on which United States stock markets saw their biggest single-day percentage drop since 1987.

Questions about Black Thursday

What does Black Thursday mean?
Black Thursday means the day when the New York Stock Exchange crashed before the Great Depression; Thursday, October 24th, 1929.
What part of speech is Black Thursday?
Black Thursday is a proper noun.

Words near Black Thursday in the dictionary

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