BLACK ICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does black ice mean? 

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

1. a thin coating of ice (as from freezing mist) on a road or sidewalk; nearly invisible but very hazardous

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACK ICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A thin coating of ice (as from freezing mist) on a road or sidewalk; nearly invisible but very hazardous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

ice; water ice (water frozen in the solid state)