Usually means: Formal evening wear for men.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word black tie:

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  1. black-tie, black tie: Merriam-Webster
  2. black tie: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. black-tie, black-tie, black tie: Collins English Dictionary
  4. black-tie, black tie: Vocabulary.com
  5. black-tie: Wordnik
  6. black tie: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. black-tie, black tie: Wiktionary
  8. black-tie, black tie: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. black tie: Dictionary.com
  10. Black Tie (album), Black Tie (band), Black Tie, Black tie (disambiguation), Black tie: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. black-tie, black tie: Rhymezone
  12. black tie: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  13. black-tie, black tie: FreeDictionary.org
  14. black-tie, black tie: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. black-tie, black tie: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. black tie: Infoplease Dictionary
  17. black-tie: Dictionary.com
  18. black tie: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. black tie: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (black tie)

noun:  (countable) A black bow tie worn with a dinner jacket.
noun:  (uncountable) Evening dress; a standard of dress which is less formal than white tie, consisting of black dinner jacket or tuxedo jacket, and matching trousers, white shirt and black bow tie or, possibly, military dress or national costume.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, tie.

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