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.
To villainize, to present in a damaging light.
Near-synonyms: tar, smear, besmirch
From black + -wash or black + wash (depending on sense).
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To cover with a black color.
The masts of British frigates and U.S. warships blackwashed the piers at the Embarcadero.
To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.
Basquiat's epic-size, experimental canvases betray his radical determination to blackwash not solely history but art history.