ALL meanings of black out
black out
B b - phrasal verb black out If you black out, you lose consciousness for a short time. 3
- phrasal verb black out If a place is blacked out, it is in darkness, usually because it has no electricity supply. 3
- phrasal verb black out If a film or a piece of writing is blacked out, it is prevented from being broadcast or published, usually because it contains information which is secret or offensive. 3
- phrasal verb black out If you black out a piece of writing, you colour over it in black so that it cannot be seen. 3
- phrasal verb black out If you black out the memory of something, you try not to remember it because it upsets you. 3
- noun black out to cover (writing, printing, etc.) with black pencil marks or paint 3
- noun black out to cause a blackout in 3
- noun black out to lose consciousness; faint 3
- noun black out to lose all memory of an event or fact 3
- noun black out Black, colored, and Negro—words that describe or name the dark-skinned peoples of sub-Saharan Africa and their descendants—have had a complex social history in the United States. A term that was once acceptable may now be offensive, and one that was once offensive may now be acceptable. Colored, for example, first used in colonial North America, was an appropriate referential term until the 1920s, when it was supplanted by Negro. Now colored is perceived not only as old-fashioned but offensive. It survives primarily in the name of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), an organization formed when the word was not considered derogatory. Describing someone as “a person of color,” however, is not offensive. That term, an inclusive one that can refer to anyone who is not white, is frequently used by members of the African American community. Negro remained the overwhelming term of choice until the mid-1960s. That decade saw a burgeoning civil-rights movement, which furthered a sense that Negro was contaminated by its long association with discrimination as well as its closeness to the disparaging and deeply offensive n-word. The emergence of the black power movement fostered the emergence of black as a primary descriptive term, as in “black pride.” By the mid-1970s black had become common within and outside the black community. But Negro has not entirely disappeared. It remains in the names of such organizations as the United Negro College Fund, people still refer to Negro spirituals, and some older people of color continue to identify with the term they have known since childhood. Negro then, while not offensive in established or historical contexts, is now looked upon in contemporary speech and writing as not only antiquated but highly likely to offend. Black remains perhaps the single most widely used term today. It has outlived the briefly popular Afro-American and, when used as an adjective, is unlikely to cause negative reactions. As a noun, however, when referring to African Americans, it does often offend—perhaps because references to “the blacks” or “a black” lead easily to misguided generalizations. But note the newer term. The 1990s saw black leaders like Jesse Jackson promote African American, which he said had “cultural integrity,” in that it refers to ethnic origins rather than to skin color. While African American has not replaced black in common parlance, it works both as a noun and as an adjective. This shifting from term to term has not been smooth or linear, and periods of change like the late 1960s were often marked by confusion as to which term was appropriate. The 1967 groundbreaking film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, about a young interracial couple hoping that both sets of parents will accept their plans to marry, reflects the abundance of terminological choices available at the time. Various characters talk of a “colored girl,” a “colored man,” a “Negro,” and “black people.” Even the n-word appears once, used disparagingly by one black character to another. African American had not yet made it into the mix. 1
- transitivephrasal verb black out obscure sth 1
- transitivephrasal verb black out city, house: turn off lights 1
- intransitivephrasal verbs black out lose consciousness 1
- adjective black out lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it. 1
- adjective black out characterized by absence of light; enveloped in darkness: a black night. 1
- adjective black out (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. 1
- adjective black out soiled or stained with dirt: That shirt was black within an hour. 1
- adjective black out gloomy; pessimistic; dismal: a black outlook. 1
- adjective black out deliberately; harmful; inexcusable: a black lie. 1
- adjective black out boding ill; sullen or hostile; threatening: black words; black looks. 1
- adjective black out (of coffee or tea) without milk or cream. 1
- adjective black out without any moral quality or goodness; evil; wicked: His black heart has concocted yet another black deed. 1
- adjective black out indicating censure, disgrace, or liability to punishment: a black mark on one's record. 1
- adjective black out marked by disaster or misfortune: black areas of drought; Black Friday. 1
- adjective black out wearing black or dark clothing or armor: the black prince. 1
- adjective black out based on the grotesque, morbid, or unpleasant aspects of life: black comedy; black humor. 1
- adjective black out (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.: Pilots put a black flag next to the ten most dangerous airports. 1
- adjective black out illegal or underground: The black economy pays no taxes. 1
- adjective black out showing a profit; not showing any losses: the first black quarter in two years. 1
- adjective black out deliberately false or intentionally misleading: black propaganda. 1
- adjective black out British. boycotted, as certain goods or products by a trade union. 1
- adjective black out (of steel) in the form in which it comes from the rolling mill or forge; unfinished. 1
- noun black out the color at one extreme end of the scale of grays, opposite to white, absorbing all light incident upon it. Compare white (def 19). 1
- noun black out (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of any of various dark-skinned peoples, especially those of Africa, Oceania, and Australia. Often Offensive. African American. 1
- noun black out black clothing, especially as a sign of mourning: He wore black at the funeral. 1
- noun black out Chess, Checkers. the dark-colored men or pieces or squares. 1
- noun black out black pigment: lamp black. 1
- noun black out Slang. black beauty. 1
- noun black out a horse or other animal that is entirely black. 1
- verb with object black out to make black; put black on; blacken. 1
- verb with object black out British. to boycott or ban. 1
- verb with object black out to polish (shoes, boots, etc.) with blacking. 1
- verb without object black out to become black; take on a black color; blacken. 1
- adverb black out (of coffee or tea) served without milk or cream. 1
- idioms black out black and white, print or writing: I want that agreement in black and white. 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. 1
- idioms black out black or white, completely either one way or another, without any intermediate state. 1
- idioms black out in the black, operating at a profit or being out of debt (opposed to in the red): New production methods put the company in the black. 1
- verb black out (Transitive Verb) To censor or cover up by writing over with black ink. 0
- verb black out (Transitive Verb) (figuratively) To censor or cover up. 0
- verb black out (Idiomatic) VI To lose consciousness; to suffer a blackout. 0