Associations to the word «Blackwash»
Wiktionary
BLACKWASH, noun. (slang) (New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
BLACKWASH, noun. (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.
BLACKWASH, noun. (medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
BLACKWASH, noun. (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.
BLACKWASH, verb. (transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.
BLACKWASH, verb. (transitive) To blacken, to cover with a black color.
Dictionary definition
BLACKWASH, noun. An attack intended to ruin someone's reputation.
BLACKWASH, noun. A mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores.
BLACKWASH, noun. A wash that colors a surface black.
BLACKWASH, verb. Bring (information) out of concealment.
BLACKWASH, verb. Color with blackwash.
Wise words
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time
as the bullets go flying through space.