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white-lash

white-lash is the alternative form of whitelash.

Meaning of whitelash

Noun

whitelash (plural whitelashes)

  1. A backlash by white people against other ethnicities.
    • 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

Forms of white-lash

pluralwhite-lashes

Questions about white-lash

What is white-lash the alternative form of?
White-lash is the alternative form of whitelash.

Words near white-lash in the dictionary

  1. white-labeled
  2. white-labeling
  3. white-labelled
  4. white-labelling
  5. white-labels
  6. white-lash
  7. white-lashes
  8. white-letter hairstreak
  9. white-letter hairstreaks
  10. white-lined sphinx
  11. white-lipped peccaries

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Adapted from Wiktionary: white-lash (page history and authors); whitelash (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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