- Martial Arts.
- a black cloth waistband conferred upon a participant in one of the martial arts, as judo or karate, to indicate a degree of expertise of the highest rank.
- a person who has obtained such rank
- the rank itself.
- a person proficient in some particular skill or endeavor; expert.
- a narrow belt of dark-colored, calcareous soils in central Alabama and Mississippi highly adapted to agriculture, especially the growing of cotton.
- the area of a city or region inhabited primarily by Black people.
- martial arts
- a black belt worn by an instructor or expert competitor in the dan grades, usually from first to fifth dan
- a person entitled to wear this
- a region of the southern US extending from Georgia across central Alabama and Mississippi, in which the population contains a large number of Black people: also noted for its fertile black soil
