blacking

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈblækɪŋ/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ækɪŋ

Noun

blacking (usually uncountable, plural blackings)

  1. A preparation, containing lampblack, used to produce a shiny black coating.
  2. Shoe polish.
  3. A boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
    • 2013, Graham Stewart, Bang!: A History of Britain in the 1980s:
      Instead, the unions persisted in believing they could defeat Murdoch through a unified campaign of picket lines, blackings and boycotts.

Verb

blacking

  1. present participle and gerund of black

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