black in

verb

To regain or return to consciousness or attentiveness after having blacked out.

Meanings

verbblack in (third-person singular simple present blacks in, present participle blacking in, simple past and past participle blacked in)

present singular third person blacks in · participle present blacking in · participle past blacked in · past blacked in

  1. intransitiveuncommonTo regain or return to consciousness or attentiveness after having blacked out.

    I just blacked back in, why is there an anvil in front of me?

    2022 July 27, Safiya Nygaard, “I Made Custom Hard Candy From Scratch”, in YouTube
    3 more examples

    Willa and Eddie barely left my side as I blacked in and blacked out over the—what? Days? Weeks? Time is unreadably stretched out on the serious postsurgical wards. It's hard to say what's a day or what's a night […]

    2016 February 9, Andrew Pyper, The Damned, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 77

    I blacked in and out – I can't remember why he showed me the rooms. I didn't know where Antonio or the rest of his friends were, but I was too spaced out to care. Finally, I blacked out completely. When I became conscious again,[…]

    2020 March 17, Isla Stone, The Art of Determination, Balboa Press, →ISBN

    She blacked out maybe, and when she blacked back in, she looked again at her screen. The eyes of the love of her life were startling, truly. His eyes did not betray him. But Grace knew now, where the good people were.

    2022 June 14, Lisa Taddeo, Ghost Lover: Stories, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 129

Origin

Probably derived from (and as an antonym to) black out.

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APA

black in. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/black%20in

MLA

“black in.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/black%20in. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “black in,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/black%20in.

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