Black Friday

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#1·1d ago

Any Friday literally or figuratively darkened by catastrophe, or the anniversary thereof.

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#2·1d ago

(possibly, obsolete) Good Friday, the Friday before Easter.

Origin: From bad; ill-omened; marked by disaster. Friday is an ill-omened day according to ancient superstition, so a Friday that was darkened by another ill-omen (such as being the 13th) or an actual disaster became known as "Black Friday". Philadelphia police applied the term to the day after Thanksgiving because the large number of people out shopping made traffic chaotic. Later, PR efforts purposely invented the incorrect, more positive "etymology" (which is a very popular urban legend and false etymology that was even in Wiktionary from 2008 to 2015) that the name was given because this day is. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#3·1d ago

(Internet slang, poker, historical) The conclusion of United States v. Scheinberg in 15 April 2011, after which major online poker sites stopped offering real money play to their United States customers.

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