"black up" meaning in All languages combined

See black up on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: blacks up [present, singular, third-person], blacking up [participle, present], blacked up [participle, past], blacked up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} black up (third-person singular simple present blacks up, present participle blacking up, simple past and past participle blacked up)
  1. (intransitive) To put on blackface makeup. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-black_up-en-verb-Hkvt~d3t
  2. (transitive) To make something (e.g. a film, cast, story line, etc.) more racially black in character; blackenize. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-black_up-en-verb-h1IKTzIZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 90 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 19 81

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for black up meaning in All languages combined (1.4kB)

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