"white up" meaning in English

{
  "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": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Marvin Edward McAllister, Whiting Up",
          "text": "...performance reception was hardly a possibility in 1940s America, which is why the producers had to white up Lee.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, George Yancy, Look, A White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness, 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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, David Walliams, Camp David, 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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Andrew Levy, Huck Finn's America: Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece",
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To wear whiteface."
      ],
      "id": "en-white_up-en-verb-g09WOLMG",
      "links": [
        [
          "whiteface",
          "whiteface"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "white up"
}

{
  "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 entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English 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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Marvin Edward McAllister, Whiting Up",
          "text": "...performance reception was hardly a possibility in 1940s America, which is why the producers had to white up Lee.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, George Yancy, Look, A White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness, 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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, David Walliams, Camp David, 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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Andrew Levy, Huck Finn's America: Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece",
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To wear whiteface."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "whiteface",
          "whiteface"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "white up"
}