| black | English (en) | (British) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.. To apply blacking to something.. To make black, to blacken. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).. [...] |
| black out | English (en) | (idiomatic, intransitive) To lose consciousness; to suffer a blackout.. (transitive) To censor or cover up by writing over with black ink.. (transitive) To make dark.. (transitive, figuratively) To censor or cover up. |
| blackout | English (en) | (historical) The mandatory blocking of all light emanating from buildings as imposed during World War II.. A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.. A temporary loss of consciousness.. A temporary loss of memory.. An instance of censorship, especially a temporary one. |
