Whiteout

Quick meaning: Whiteout is a noun meaning A heavy snowstorm; a blizzard.

Meaning

A heavy snowstorm; a blizzard.

More Meanings

1. Correction fluid (from the brand name Wite-Out).
2. (sports, slang) A sporting event where all in attendance are urged to wear white apparel.
3. (computing) The simulated erasure of a file, etc. on a read-only volume.
4. The suppression of a story by the media, analogously to deleting information with correction fluid.
5. The silencing of voices and perspectives other than those of white people.
6. Any weather condition in which visibility and contrast are severely reduced by snow or sand causing the horizon and physical features of the terrain to disappear.

Example Sentences

The slightest reference to national security is accepted as excuse enough for a news whiteout.

"Who Put the Black Face on Poverty," the show asked. Well, the mainstream media "whiteout" of the story provides a clue.

Closer to home, I thought about how that same “whiteout” existed in U.S. scholarship on television production and viewership and their cultural flows.

While it represented a symbolic break from the “whiteout” on the US presidency, it was also, obviously, the most racialized campaign in American history.

Word Forms

• whiteouts
• white-out

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blizzard, superblizzard, snowpocalypse, blizzaster, snowstorm, snowmageddon.

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