black ace

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1. 1

   A player from a junior league who is called up by an NHL team after their original team's…

   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.

   • 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.
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   An elite mafia hitman.

   • 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.
3. 3

   A woman's sexual favours, or a woman who gives them.

   • Blame her not poor Woman, she loves nothing so well as a black ace.
   • The poetess Afra next shew'd her sweet face, And swore by her poetry, and her black ace, The laurel by a double right was her own, For the plays she had writ, and the conquests she had won.
   • Go, go, go to the dean's, and don't mind politicks, young women, they are not good after the waters; they are stark naught: they strike up into the head. Go, get two black aces, and fish for a manilio.
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   1. 4

      Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

      Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, ace.

      • The ace of spades is a black ace.

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