Definition of "blackwash" in İngilizce

noun

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.

verb

1. (transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.

   • Near-synonyms: tar, smear, besmirch

2. (transitive) To cover with a black color.

3. (transitive) To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.