An Appalachian and Southern US expression for nighttime — specifically for pitch darkness, when it is completely dark outside. The double darkness intensifier ('black' + 'dark') is characteristic of Appalachian English's tendency toward expressive doubling. Used in rural speech to mean the dead of night or total darkness.
'It was black dark by the time we got off the mountain,' she said, 'and the flashlight was dead.'
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(slang, Southern US, Appalachian) nighttime.
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