Definitions for blacking
blacking
black·ing
Spelling: [blak-ing]
IPA: /ˈblæk ɪŋ/
Blacking is a 8 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.
You can make 238 anagrams from letters in blacking (abcgikln).
Definitions for blacking
noun
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any preparation for producing a black coating or finish, as on shoes or stoves.
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the color at one extreme end of the scale of grays, opposite to white, absorbing all light incident upon it.
Compare white (def 19).
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(sometimes initial capital letter)
a member of any of various dark-skinned peoples, especially those of Africa, Oceania, and Australia.
Often Offensive. African American.
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black clothing, especially as a sign of mourning:
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Chess, Checkers. the dark-colored men or pieces or squares.
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black pigment:
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Slang. black beauty.
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a horse or other animal that is entirely black.
Idioms
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black and white,
print or writing:
a monochromatic picture done with black and white only.
a chocolate soda containing vanilla ice cream.
Slang. a highly recognizable police car, used to patrol a community.
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black or white, completely either one way or another, without any intermediate state.
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in the black, operating at a profit or being out of debt (opposed to in the red):
adverb
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(of coffee or tea) served without milk or cream.
adjective
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lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
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characterized by absence of light; enveloped in darkness:
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(sometimes initial capital letter)
pertaining or belonging to any of the various populations characterized by dark skin pigmentation, specifically the dark-skinned peoples of Africa, Oceania, and Australia.
African American.
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soiled or stained with dirt:
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gloomy; pessimistic; dismal:
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deliberately; harmful; inexcusable:
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boding ill; sullen or hostile; threatening:
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(of coffee or tea) without milk or cream.
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without any moral quality or goodness; evil; wicked:
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indicating censure, disgrace, or liability to punishment:
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marked by disaster or misfortune:
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wearing black or dark clothing or armor:
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based on the grotesque, morbid, or unpleasant aspects of life:
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(of a check mark, flag, etc.) done or written in black to indicate, as on a list, that which is undesirable, substandard, potentially dangerous, etc.:
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illegal or underground:
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showing a profit; not showing any losses:
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deliberately false or intentionally misleading:
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British. boycotted, as certain goods or products by a trade union.
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(of steel) in the form in which it comes from the rolling mill or forge; unfinished.
Verb phrases
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black out,
to lose consciousness:
to erase, obliterate, or suppress:
to forget everything relating to a particular event, person, etc.:
Theater. to extinguish all of the stage lights.
to make or become inoperable:
Military. to obscure by concealing all light in defense against air raids.
Radio and Television. to impose a broadcast blackout on (an area).
to withdraw or cancel (a special fare, sale, discount, etc.) for a designated period:
verb (used with object)
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to make black; put black on; blacken.
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British. to boycott or ban.
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to polish (shoes, boots, etc.) with blacking.
verb (used without object)
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to become black; take on a black color; blacken.
Origin of blacking
First recorded in 1590-1600; black + -ing1
Examples for blacking
The brewer was obstinate, and insisted on dying in the blacking.
The lights in the drive chamber began to dim—or was he blacking out?
He eventually found that blacking out the words with permanent marker proved more effective—but you can imagine how that looked.
The blacking out of the screen coincided with Donna's scream.
He said Tom had purposely thrown the bottle of blacking at him.
The savages have got hold of the bottle of blacking and have been drinking it like anything.'
Unless I do better I'll have to try selling papers or blacking boots.
Don't let him flop, though, or he'll lick all the blacking off your boots.
The next forenoon, as Azuba was blacking the stove, Gertrude entered the kitchen.
Moreover, our boots are of rough hide, and not adapted for blacking.