black belt
Martial Arts. : Compare brown belt, white belt.
a black cloth waistband conferred upon a participant in one of the martial arts, as judo or karate, to indicate a degree of expertise of the highest rank.
a person who has obtained such rank
the rank itself.
a person proficient in some particular skill or endeavor; expert.
(initial capital letters) a narrow belt of dark-colored, calcareous soils in central Alabama and Mississippi highly adapted to agriculture, especially the growing of cotton.
(initial capital letters) the area of a city or region inhabited primarily by Black people.
Origin of black belt
1Other words from black belt
- black-belt, adjective
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How to use black belt in a sentence
Back to hidden talents—there is a joke about Judo in the film, and I heard you have a black belt in Taekwondo?
Evan Rachel Wood on Tribeca Film ‘Case Of You,’ Coming Out as Bisexual, Her Pregnancy, and More | Marlow Stern | April 24, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWood: I have a black belt and used to compete when I was a kid!
Evan Rachel Wood on Tribeca Film ‘Case Of You,’ Coming Out as Bisexual, Her Pregnancy, and More | Marlow Stern | April 24, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt took earning my black belt while I was stationed in Korea to change all that.
Luckily my husband is a third degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
Carole first wore the blue dress from chain store Reiss with a black belt to Ascot two years ago.
The broad black belt which he wore contained many secret pockets, and from one of these he extracted a ten-dollar bill.
Reaching into one of the secret pockets of his wide black belt he removed a curiously shaped tool of finest tempered steel.
His right hand dropped with incredible swiftness to his wide black belt, snatched something from a concealed pocket there.
Over the black belt of the garden I saw the long line of Queen Street, with here and there a lighted window.
The Pocket R.L.S. | Robert Louis StevensonLet no one suppose the work in the black belt or the State is finished.
British Dictionary definitions for black belt
martial arts
a black belt worn by an instructor or expert competitor in the dan grades, usually from first to fifth dan
a person entitled to wear this
the black belt a region of the southern US extending from Georgia across central Alabama and Mississippi, in which the population contains a large number of Black people: also noted for its fertile black soil
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