Man in Black

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English

Etymology

Derived from the fact that Cash regularly performed live music whilst wearing black clothes.

Proper noun

the Man in Black

  1. The country musician Johnny Cash.
    • 2015, “Missing Ol’ Johnny Cash”, performed by Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard:
      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