blacker en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
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- /ˈblækɚ/ (General-American)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *blakaz Proto-West Germanic *blak Old English blæc Middle English blak English black English -er English blacker From black + -er.
Meanings
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One who blacks (in various senses).
Then "G. A. R." did shoulder his burden and with much labor made footprints for a hostelry afar off, where he might put it in for safe keeping, while the venders of papers and the ragged blackers of boots followed in his train and pelted him […]
1895, The Gopher: Annual Publication of the Student Body of the University of Minnesota:
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Someone who creates black MIDI music.
Blackers across the globe, many of them teens and preteens, are embroiled in a ferocious game of one-upsmanship, battling to see how many notes they can cram into a single composition. First it was 100K, then 500K, then a million—now upwards of five million notes are common.
2013 December 30, Matt Earp, “Meet the 15-Year-Old Boy King of Black MIDI”, in VICE, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2023:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| blackers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |