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Meanings of whitewasher in English

Sports term for game in which losing team fails to score.

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Examples for "whitewash"
1
In fact, several of the people involved in this whitewash are British.
Ebony
2
The buildings gleamed with fresh coats of whitewash; everything was under control.
Outpost
3
Let's analyse the four times that he crossed the Eden Park whitewash.
Radio NZ
4
The unseen screws of political pressure creaked, and whitewash brushes slurped suavely.
Murder in the Gunroom
5
On either hand two cinque-cento frescoes had been rescued from the whitewash.
Eleanor
Usage of whitewasher in English
1
She had been up in the new flat with the whitewasher.
The Goose Man
2
Burton mounted the steps doubtfully and stood in the hall, underneath a whitewasher's plank.
The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton
3
I'm a cleaner an' a whitewasher by profession, an' somebody gib me dat name.
Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle; Or, Fun and Adventures on the Roa...
4
So far I've been intermittently a rotten ploughman, a fair fence-mender and a skillful whitewasher.
Kenny
5
But he is also a whitewasher of witchcraft.
The Meaning of Witchcraft
6
I used to be a whitewasher, and I reckon I'd get work at my old trade.
Cast Upon the Breakers
7
My father was a carpenter, whitewasher, anything.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
8
The only way to save these choice things was to make them suddenly take the white veil from the whitewasher's brush.
A Walk from London to John O'Groat's / With Notes by the Way
9
Users are, in some sense, the fence whitewashers that Tom Sawyer famously turned the neighborhood kids into.
Wired
Frequent collocations
Whitewasher through the time