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What does in the dark mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word in the dark? Here's what it means.

Prepositional phrase
  1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: Without light; somewhere that is dark.
  2. (idiomatic) Without information.
  3. (poker) Without looking at one's hole cards, thus not knowing what they are.
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Examples
The Settler was an unreconstructed Jacobite who fled to Maryland in the dark days following the Glorious Revolution.
They use night vision and an acute sense of hearing to find prey in the dark.
The floodlights are an eyesore, for sure, but since I understand that it's jolly hard to play football in the dark I have not complained.
It was a brave decision because he had to jump about 15 feet down into the river in the dark.
My guess is neither Thomas or Kingman could hit junkballs, total shot in the dark there.
Nobody knows what it will look like ten years from now, and anyone who claims to is just whistling in the dark.

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