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blacklashes

blacklashes is the plural of blacklash.

Meaning of blacklash

Noun

blacklash (plural blacklashes)

  1. A backlash by black people against other ethnicities or groups.
    • This was the blacklash. The whitelash came, too, and blood flowed in the streets.1970 January, John H. Britton, “Into age of sick seventies”, in Jet magazine, page 7

Questions about blacklashes

What is blacklashes the plural of?
Blacklashes is the plural of blacklash.

Words near blacklashes in the dictionary

  1. blackjacks
  2. Blacklake
  3. blackland
  4. blacklands
  5. blacklash
  6. blacklashes
  7. blacklead
  8. blackleaded
  9. blackleader
  10. blackleaders
  11. blackleading

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