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"form": "blacks up",
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},
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"To become or make (something) black or darker."
],
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"(transitive, intransitive, literally) To become or make (something) black or darker."
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"ref": "2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 191:",
"text": "Cantor starts blacking up, right then and there, painting his face with a burnt piece of cork.",
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"To put on or wear blackface makeup."
],
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"blackface",
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"makeup"
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"(transitive, intransitive) To put on or wear blackface makeup."
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"To make something (e.g. a film, cast, story line, etc.) more racially black in character; blackenize."
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"(transitive) To make something (e.g. a film, cast, story line, etc.) more racially black in character; blackenize."
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