Usually means: Dark comedy highlighting taboo subjects.
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  1. black humor: Merriam-Webster
  2. black humor: Collins English Dictionary
  3. black humor: Vocabulary.com
  4. black humor: Wiktionary
  5. black humor: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. black humor: Dictionary.com
  7. Black Humor (film), Black-humor, Black humor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. black humor: Rhymezone
  9. black humor: FreeDictionary.org
  10. black humor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. black humor: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. black humor: Encyclopedia

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  1. Black Humor: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (black humor)

noun:  A subgenre of comedy and satire that deals with subjects that are believed to be serious or controversial, such as death, divorce, drug abuse, etc.

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