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‘We’ll be in the black book!’
Black Book. He is down in the
black book, i.e. has a stain in his
character. A black book is kept
in most regiments, wherein the
names of all persons sentenced
to punishment are recorded.
‘A Classical Dictionary of the
Vulgar Tongue’
Francis Grose, 1785.
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