blackwash
A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting teamA whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
Meaning
5 senses(New Zealand, countable, slang, uncountable)A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
(countable, slang, uncountable)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.
(countable, uncountable)A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
a mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores
(countable, slang, uncountable)Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.
(countable, uncountable)A villainization campaign.
Origin
From black + -wash or black + wash (depending on sense).From black + -wash or black + wash (depending on sense).
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Forms
plural: blackwashes| Singular | blackwash |
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Synonyms
4 synonyms- a mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores:black lotion
- an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation:character assassinationassassination
Antonyms
1 antonymsWord family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable