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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