Meaning

(slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team..

Definitions by Sense

1. (slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
2. (slang, cricket) 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. (medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
4. (slang, mining) 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. (chiefly politics) A villainization campaign.
6. (transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.
7. (transitive) To cover with a black color.
8. (transitive) To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: tar, smear, besmirch

Mistrusting my own prejudices, I have taken the story from the two parliamentary papers in which our officials have done their utmost to whitewash the tribunals and the pigeon-shooting party, and to blackwash the villagers.

The masts of British frigates and U.S. warships blackwashed the piers at the Embarcadero.

I do not care whether a man whitewashes or blackwashes his fence, or whether he uses guano or barnyard manure, or what his mode of cultivation may be, the question is, Does he get good fruit?

Basquiat's epic-size, experimental canvases betray his radical determination to blackwash not solely history but art history.

TheCYGamer, for example, called out the game for liberal propaganda, stating that, "[…] This is straight up blackwashing history to please the SJW's."

Word Forms

• blackwashes
• blackwashing
• blackwashed

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