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blacksplaining

blacksplaining is the present participle and gerund of blacksplain.

Meaning of blacksplain

Verb

blacksplain (third-person singular simple present blacksplains, present participle blacksplaining, simple past and past participle blacksplained)

  1. (slang) Of a black person in a group with non-black people: to explain some concept which is very common in black culture while assuming the non-black members of the group do not understand.

Questions about blacksplaining

What is blacksplaining the present participle and gerund of?
Blacksplaining is the present participle and gerund of blacksplain.

Words near blacksplaining in the dictionary

  1. Blacksonian
  2. Blacksons
  3. blackspeak
  4. blacksplain
  5. blacksplained
  6. blacksplaining
  7. blacksplains
  8. blacksploitation
  9. blackspot
  10. blackspot sea bream
  11. blackspot sea breams

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blacksplaining (page history and authors); blacksplain (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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