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long blacks

long blacks is the plural of long black.

Meaning of long black

Noun

long black (plural long blacks)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A regular-sized cup of espresso coffee without milk, being a diluted version of a short black.
    • Up the hill towards the park was the coffee shop where she and Mandy had met, and where Hugh had come daily for his long blacks.2009, Peter Yeldham, A Distant Shore, unnumbered page

Questions about long blacks

What is long blacks the plural of?
Long blacks is the plural of long black.

Words near long blacks in the dictionary

  1. long beers
  2. long betwixt the fingers
  3. long bit
  4. long bits
  5. long black
  6. long blacks
  7. long block
  8. long blocks
  9. long bond
  10. long bond paper
  11. long bone

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