A member of the RIC British irregular army group, operating against Irish republicans in the War of Independence 1920/21.

(Australia, New Zealand) A regular-sized cup of espresso coffee without milk, being a diluted version of a short black.

(idiomatic) A nonconformist; an unusual or unconventional person, who may be rejected or disdained by others for this reason. / (idiomatic) A person who is not wholesome, honest, or trustworthy.

(Australia, New Zealand) A small cup or glass of espresso coffee.

A bean plant with black seeds. / A dried seed of a black bean plant. / A dried black seed of certain varieties of the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris. / A fermented soybean, used in Asian cooking.

The depiction of Spain and Spaniards (or, by extension, all Hispanics and their countries of origin) as bloodthirsty and cruel, greedy and fanatical.

Tea leaves which have been "fermented" (actually, oxidized) before drying to enhance their flavour (cf. green tea). / (Britain) A cup of tea served without milk.

(chemistry) A fine black powder of amorphous carbon manufactured by the incomplete combustion of natural gas or oil, and used as a pigment in the manufacture of ink and paint. Used as a filler in rubber like polymers and rubber. It helps the polymers resist deterioration by ultraviolet rays.

(medicine, historical) A pandemic outbreak of bubonic plague throughout Europe and most of Asia in the 14th century that killed nearly half the population of Europe and Asia.

(informal, aviation) A flight recorder; the brightly colored cockpit voice recorders and flight data recorders in an aircraft designed to aid in determining the cause of an accident.