black panther

plural black panthers

1. A melanistic colour variant of the leopard (Panthera pardus) or the jaguar (Panthera onca).

plural Black Panthers

1. UShistoricalgovernmentA member of the Black Panther Party, a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982.

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   For example, does that huge Black Panther there in the hallway, the one shaking hands with Felicia Bernstein herself, the one with the black leather coat and the dark glasses and the absolutely unbelievable Afro, Fuzzy Wuzzy-scale in fact—is he, a Black Panther, going on to pick up a Roquefort cheese morsel rolled in crushed nuts from off the tray, from a maid in uniform, and just pop it down the gullet without so much as missing a beat of Felicia's perfect Mary Astor voice. . . .

   1970 June 8, Tom Wolfe, “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's”, in New York Magazine