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Man in Black
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man in black
English
Etymology
Derived from the fact that Cash regularly performed live music whilst wearing black clothes.
Proper noun
Man in Black 1
The country musician Johnny Cash.
en 2015 Willie Nelson; Merle Haggard Missing Ol’ Johnny Cash The Man In Black was long and lean / Hit the Billboard charts with a Teenage Queen / Had a television show, the best we'd seen / That chick-a-boom rock really made a splash / Missing ol' Johnny Cash