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Meanings of blacking in English

Portuguese
graxa de sapato
Catalan
betum

A substance used to produce a shiny protective surface on footwear.

graxa de sapato
Usage of blacking in English
1
He takes pictures of his boat, blacking out background making good effect.
The new yorker
2
Prewitt, a new History professor, has reportedly been blacking out in class.
The new yorker
3
She felt herself swaying, almost blacking out and forced herself to focus.
Bake sale murder
4
Through the kitchen window I could see a woman blacking the stove.
Parnassus on Wheels
5
Maybe his talk about farting and blacking out wasn't just a joke.
Rogues
6
In fact, you will seldom need to use blacking on these parts.
Things Mother Used to Make / A Collection of Old Time Recipes, S...
7
Caird came close to blacking out, and then he felt almost weightless.
Dayworld Breakup
8
I woke up one day on the kitchen floor, after blacking out.
The Guardian
9
I woke up on the kitchen floor one day, after blacking out.
The Guardian
10
He was just on the edge of blacking out from the pain.
The darkness before the dawn
11
With the dollar he bought a box, three brushes, and some blacking.
McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader
12
He said Tom had purposely thrown the bottle of blacking at him.
Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout; Or, The Speediest Car on th...
13
Mrs. Harsanyi noticed that she wore high heavy shoes which needed blacking.
The Song of the Lark
14
He manages, by blacking boots and baking leather pies, to make money.
The Citizen-Soldier / or, Memoirs of a Volunteer
15
Helpless and close to blacking out, he started to shout at them.
The dark griffin
16
Who's going to stop for a moment to read about somebody's blacking?
All Roads Lead to Calvary
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Translations for blacking
Catalan
betum
Blacking through the time
Blacking across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common