blackwash

English

noun
Definitions
  • (slang) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
  • (slang) 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.
  • (medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
  • (slang) public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.
  • (chiefly) A villainization campaign

Etymology

Suffix from English black (dark haired, black haired), black (dark haired, black haired) + English wash.

Origin

English

wash

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