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means The day after Thanksgiving, marked by aggressive discount shopping and retailers racing to push their annual profits into the black.

from The name's popular origin story is accounting-based: retailers traditionally recorded losses in red ink and profits in black, so the day sales surged enough to tip the books into profit became 'Black Friday.' But the term actually started darker — Philadelphia police in the 1960s used it to grumble about the chaos, traffic jams, and crowds clogging the city the day after Thanksgiving. Retailers, unhappy with the gloomy name, spent years trying to rebrand it with the cheerier profit-and-loss story, which eventually won out in the public imagination.