blackwash

Meanings

Noun

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

Verb

• To villainize, to present in a damaging light.
• To blacken, to cover with a black color.
• To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.

Related

Similar words

• blackout

Opposite words

• whitewash

Origin

• black + -wash or black + wash (depending on sense)