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blackfolk

blackfolk noun: black people.

Noun (1)

blackfolk pl (plural only)

  1. (informal, plural, plural-only) Black people.
    • Coordinate term: whitefolk
    • Most Integrationists do not see America as a powerful but degenerate world imperialist. Those Integrationist[s] who do see this feel that by injecting blackfolk into the existing American framework they will cool out the degeneracy.1968 September–October, S. E. Anderson, “Roads to Black Liberation: The Fragmented Movement”, in Negro Digest, volume 17, numbers 11–12, page 5

Noun (2) capitalized: Blackfolk

Blackfolk pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Alternative letter-case form of blackfolk.

Forms of blackfolk

alternative formBlackfolk

Origin of blackfolk

From black + folk.

Questions about blackfolk

What does blackfolk mean?
Blackfolk means black people.
What part of speech is blackfolk?
Blackfolk is a noun.

Words near blackfolk in the dictionary

  1. blackflap blenny
  2. blackflies
  3. blackfly
  4. blackfold
  5. blackfolds
  6. blackfolk
  7. blackfoot
  8. Blackfoots
  9. Blackford
  10. Blackford County
  11. Blackford Hill

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