Black Russian

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Adjective

Black Russian (comparative more Black Russian, superlative most Black Russian)

1. Pertaining to Black Russia.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Black,‎ Russian.

Noun

Black Russian (plural Black Russians)

1. A cocktail containing vodka and a coffee-flavoured liqueur such as Kahlúa.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Black,‎ Russian.
   • 2008, Joy Gleason Carew, Blacks, Reds, and Russians: Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN:

     I had met Yelena Khanga (Lily Golden's daughter) in Chicago when we were both on a panel about blacks and Russia in the early 1990s. Her book, Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family, 1865–1992, had just come out, and she was ...

   • 1989, John Oliver Killens, Great Black Russian: A Novel on the Life and Times of Alexander Pushkin:

Translations

drink

• Estonian: must venelane
• Finnish: musta ryssä
• Russian: чёрный ру́сский m (čórnyj rússkij)

Related terms

• Blue Russian
• Great Russian
• Little Russian
• New Russian
• Russian
• White Russian