BLACK BOOK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does black book mean? 

• BLACK BOOK (noun)
  The noun BLACK BOOK has 1 sense:

1. a list of people who are out of favor

  Familiarity information: BLACK BOOK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACK BOOK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A list of people who are out of favor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

black book; blacklist; shitlist

Hypernyms ("black book" is a kind of...):

list; listing (a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics))

 Context examples 

An extinguished candle stood on the table; she was bending over the fire, and seemed reading in a little black book, like a prayer-book, by the light of the blaze: she muttered the words to herself, as most old women do, while she read; she did not desist immediately on my entrance: it appeared she wished to finish a paragraph.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)