All Blacks

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(Rugby) the All Blacks the international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand

[so named because of the players' black playing strip]

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All Blacks

Members of New Zealand’s international team, socalled because of their black team uniform.

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"He felt so pressurized by his community as well as by the theater community to hold up the flag for all blacks all over the world, and he couldn't do it," said Second City founder and former artistic director Sheldon Patinkin.

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