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blackstuff en · NOUN

Etymology

From black + stuff, popularized by the 1982 BBC television series Boys from the Blackstuff.

Meanings

  1. (UK, slang, uncountable) Tarmac.
    • I continue my climb along the road that once was dirt and pebbles but now is freshly paved with blackstuff. 2013, Lisa Selvidge, Summer Times in the Algarve, page 130:

wikipedia: Boys from the Blackstuff