Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

black thursday

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.56 in modern English

Syllables
black- thurs-day
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

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The day when the New York Stock Exchange crashed before the Great Depression; Thursday, October 24th, 1929.

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March 12, 2020, as part of the 2020 stock market crash; the day on which United States stock markets saw their biggest single-day percentage drop since 1987.

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What does black thursday mean?
The day when the New York Stock Exchange crashed before the Great Depression; Thursday, October 24th, 1929.

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