black book

1. 1.

   a list of people who are out of favor

   Synonymsblacklistshitlist

   Broaderlist

Questions about black book

What does black book mean?

black book means "a list of people who are out of favor".

What is another word for black book?

Close synonyms include blacklist, shitlist. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black book a common word?

black book is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.