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blackwashes

blackwashes is the plural of blackwash.

blackwashes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of blackwash.

Meaning of blackwash

Noun

blackwash (countable and uncountable, plural blackwashes)

  1. (New Zealand, slang) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
    Synonyms:
    blackout
  2. (slang) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
  3. A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
  4. (slang) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.
  5. A villainization campaign.

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Origin of blackwashes

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Questions about blackwashes

What is blackwashes the plural of?
Blackwashes is the plural of blackwash.

Words near blackwashes in the dictionary

  1. Blackwarry
  2. blackwash
  3. blackwashed
  4. blackwasher
  5. blackwashers
  6. blackwashes
  7. blackwashing
  8. blackwater
  9. Blackwater and Hawley
  10. blackwater fever
  11. blackwater rafting

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