"white up" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "whites up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whiting up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whited up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whited up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "white up (third-person singular simple present whites up, present participle whiting up, simple past and past participle whited up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To become or make (something) white."
      ],
      "id": "en-white_up-en-verb-DO-CbsnP",
      "links": [
        [
          "white",
          "white"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literally, transitive, intransitive) To become or make (something) white."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "literally",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "26 74",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 82",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "19 81",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 85",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1971, Roy Huss -, Focus on Blow-up, page 41:",
          "text": "The final scene is a ritual penitence: as he leaves the park, he comes upon a student rag group, all whited up as clowns.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Marvin Edward McAllister, Whiting Up, →ISBN:",
          "text": "...performance reception was hardly a possibility in 1940s America, which is why the producers had to white up Lee.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, George Yancy, Look, A White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness, →ISBN, page 111:",
          "text": "White Chicks deploys a \"reverse\" minstrel show technique. Instead of whites \"blacking up\" to ridicule the oppressed Other, black men (Shawn and Marlon Wayans) \"white up\" to reveal and critique various instantiations of whiteness.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, David Walliams, Camp David, →ISBN, page lxxxviii:",
          "text": "Nick Hedges was a disciple of the avant-garde dancer and choreographer Lindsay Kemp, whose style was for all the performers to white up their face like clowns and move very slowly.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Andrew Levy, Huck Finn's America: Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece, →ISBN:",
          "text": "In Ghana and Cape Town, Jamaica and Trinidad, local performers blacked up (and whited up and redded up) and created a global form with politics more slippery than anything T. D. Rice ever imagined.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To put on or wear whiteface."
      ],
      "id": "en-white_up-en-verb-meGD3IxJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "whiteface",
          "whiteface"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) To put on or wear whiteface."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "white up"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "whites up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whiting up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whited up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whited up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "white up (third-person singular simple present whites up, present participle whiting up, simple past and past participle whited up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become or make (something) white."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "white",
          "white"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literally, transitive, intransitive) To become or make (something) white."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "literally",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1971, Roy Huss -, Focus on Blow-up, page 41:",
          "text": "The final scene is a ritual penitence: as he leaves the park, he comes upon a student rag group, all whited up as clowns.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Marvin Edward McAllister, Whiting Up, →ISBN:",
          "text": "...performance reception was hardly a possibility in 1940s America, which is why the producers had to white up Lee.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, George Yancy, Look, A White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness, →ISBN, page 111:",
          "text": "White Chicks deploys a \"reverse\" minstrel show technique. Instead of whites \"blacking up\" to ridicule the oppressed Other, black men (Shawn and Marlon Wayans) \"white up\" to reveal and critique various instantiations of whiteness.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, David Walliams, Camp David, →ISBN, page lxxxviii:",
          "text": "Nick Hedges was a disciple of the avant-garde dancer and choreographer Lindsay Kemp, whose style was for all the performers to white up their face like clowns and move very slowly.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Andrew Levy, Huck Finn's America: Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece, →ISBN:",
          "text": "In Ghana and Cape Town, Jamaica and Trinidad, local performers blacked up (and whited up and redded up) and created a global form with politics more slippery than anything T. D. Rice ever imagined.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To put on or wear whiteface."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "whiteface",
          "whiteface"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) To put on or wear whiteface."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "white up"
}