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sounds about white

sounds about white phrase: expressing that something (which was done or said by a white person) is the kind of thing the speaker would expect a white person or white people to do.

Phrase

sounds about white

  1. (colloquial, humorous, offensive, often) Expressing that something (which was done or said by a white person) is the kind of thing the speaker would expect a white person or white people to do.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:sounds about white.

Origin of sounds about white

A wordplay on sounds about right.

Questions about sounds about white

What does sounds about white mean?
Sounds about white means expressing that something (which was done or said by a white person) is the kind of thing the speaker would expect a white person or white people to do.
What part of speech is sounds about white?
Sounds about white is a phrase.

Words near sounds about white in the dictionary

  1. soundproofers
  2. soundproofing
  3. soundproofings
  4. soundproofs
  5. sounds
  6. sounds about white
  7. sounds good
  8. sounds like a plan
  9. sounds off
  10. sounds out
  11. sounds the alarm

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