black monday
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.71 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
March 9, 2020, in the midst of the 2020 stock market crash, which resulted from market instability due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was followed three days later by a similar event called Black Thursday.
Example Sentences
- "[H]olidays were my most unpleasant time; for my mother, who never loved me, now apprehending that I had the greater share of my father’s affection, and finding, or at least thinking, that I was more taken notice of by some gentlemen of learning, and particularly by the parson of the parish, than my brother, she now hated my sight, and made home so disagreeable to me, that what is called by school-boys Black Monday, was to me the whitest in the whole year."
- "Now, in my time, when we got home by the old coach, which put us down at the cross-roads with our boxes, the first day of the holidays, and had been driven off by the family coachman, singing "Dulce Domum" at the top of our voices, there we were, fixtures, till black Monday came round."