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once you go black, you never go back

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.97 in modern English

Syllables
on-ce y-ou -go black-, y-ou n-ev-er -go back
IPA
57
Scrabble Score
28
Letters
9
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

proverb

Once someone has had sexual intercourse with a black person they will not want to return to having sexual intercourse with nonblack people.

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What does once you go black, you never go back mean?
Once someone has had sexual intercourse with a black person they will not want to return to having sexual intercourse with nonblack people.

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