black ace
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.09 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A player from a junior league who is called up by an NHL team after their original team's season has ended and kept as a reserve player.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, ace.
Example Sentences
- "At one time or another every Springfield player was designated a "black ace." According to Kilrea, that meant reporting to the rink at 8:30 in the morning and skating from 9 to 11. Another session followed in the afternoon, from 12 to 2, and Shore would keep his ace, or aces, out on the ice sometimes until 4 P.M. All in the name of discipline."
- "We'd have our morning skate and then I would have the black aces stay out, the guys that weren't gonna dress."
- "We spent a lot of time with the Habs as “black aces” —players who practised with the team as fifth-liners and wouldn't get into the lineup unless there was an injury to one of the veteran players."
- "The big man in the Mafia said: 'Billy, me and the boys are praying for you. We know you're up against the big one this time, the big black ace'."
- "In Missouri Deathwatch, Newton brings forth another Black Ace, this time a shadowy man called, simply, Stone."
- "He'd even played the role of a Mafia “black ace” for several months, back in his old life, and had sold it to the toughest critics in the world."