Man in Black

See also: man in black

English

Etymology

Derived from the fact that Cash regularly performed live music whilst wearing black clothes.

Proper noun

the Man in Black

1. The country musician Johnny Cash.
   • 2015, “Missing Ol’ Johnny Cash”, performed by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard:

     The Man In Black was long and lean / Hit the Billboard charts with a Teenage Queen / Had a television show, the best we'd seen / That chick-a-boom rock really made a splash / Missing ol' Johnny Cash