blacker

See also: Blacker

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈblækɚ/

Etymology 1

From black +‎ -er.

Noun

blacker (plural blackers)

1. One who blacks (in various senses).
   • 1895, The Gopher: Annual Publication of the Student Body of the University of Minnesota:

     Then "G. A. R." did shoulder his burden and with much labor made footprints for a hostelry afar off, where he might put it in for safe keeping, while the venders of papers and the ragged blackers of boots followed in his train and pelted him […]

2. (music) Someone who creates black MIDI music.
   • 2013 December 30, Matt Earp, “Meet the 15-Year-Old Boy King of Black MIDI”, in VICE‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-10-26:

     Blackers across the globe, many of them teens and preteens, are embroiled in a ferocious game of one-upsmanship, battling to see how many notes they can cram into a single composition. First it was 100K, then 500K, then a million—now upwards of five million notes are common.

Etymology 2

Adjective

blacker

1. comparative form of black: more black