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black belt
CIDE DICTIONARY
black belt, n.
a comedy that treats of morbid, tragic, gloomy, or grotesque situations as a major element of the plot. [PJC]
THESAURUS
black belt
Chinese boxer, agricultural region, arable land, bantamweight, boxer, brown belt, bruiser, citrus belt, corn belt, cotton belt, countryside, dust bowl, farm belt, farm country, farmland, featherweight, fighter, fisticuffer, flyweight, fruit belt, grass roots, grassland, grazing region, heavyweight, highlands, karate expert, light heavyweight, lightweight, lowlands, meadows and pastures, middleweight, moors, palooka, plains, prairies, prizefighter, province, provinces, pug, pugilist, rural district, rustic region, savate expert, sparrer, steppes, the country, the soil, the sticks, tobacco belt, uplands, veld, welterweight, wheat belt, wide-open spaces, woodland, woods and fields, yokeldomFor further exploring for "black belt" in Webster Dictionary Online