There is nothing in the US quite like Black Friday. Before midnight on Thursday, in malls across the US, people start queuing { } outside the locked entrances of stores, making longer and longer lines, { } coupons (优惠券) , sipping coffee and hot chocolate, rubbing their hands and stamping (跺脚) their feet for warmth, { } chatting, and waiting for the clerks to open the door when the time arrives. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, which { } on Nov 28， 2014, has become in recent decades a special American holiday, said the International Business Times. Indeed, up to 147 million Black Friday shoppers were expected to { } the dark of night and the elbows (手肘) of other shoppers so that they could bring home some bargains, according to the US National Retail Federation.