Meaning of black ace | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A player from a junior league who is called up by an NHL team after their original team's season has ended and kept as a reserve player.
2. An elite mafia hitman.
   slang
3. A woman's sexual favours, or a woman who gives them.
   euphemistic, obsolete
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, ace.

Examples

“At one time or another every Springfield player was designated a "black ace." According to Kilrea, that meant reporting to the rink at 8:30 in the morning and skating from 9 to 11. Another session followed in the afternoon, from 12 to 2, and Shore would keep⟳ his ace, or aces, out on the ice sometimes until 4 P.M. All in the name⟳ of discipline.”

“We'd have⟳ our morning skate and then I would have⟳ the black aces stay⟳ out, the guys that weren't gonna dress.”

“We spent a lot of time with the Habs as “black aces” —players who practised with the team as fifth-liners and wouldn't get⟳ into the lineup unless there was an injury to one of the veteran players.”

“The big man in the Mafia said: 'Billy, me and the boys are praying for you. We know⟳ you're up against the big one this time, the big black ace'.”

“In Missouri Deathwatch, Newton brings forth another Black Ace, this time a shadowy man called, simply, Stone.”

“He'd even played the role of a Mafia “black ace” for several months, back in his old life, and had sold it to the toughest critics in the world.”

“Blame⟳ her not poor Woman, she loves nothing so well as a black ace.”

“The poetess Afra next shew'd her sweet face⟳, And swore by her poetry, and her black ace, The laurel by a double⟳ right was her own⟳, For the plays she had writ, and the conquests she had won.”

“Go, go, go to the dean's, and don't mind⟳ politicks, young women, they are not good after the waters; they are stark naught: they strike⟳ up into the head. Go, get⟳ two black aces, and fish⟳ for a manilio.”

“The ace of spades is a black ace.”

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