Usually means: Severe snowstorm obscuring all visibility.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word whiteout:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. whiteout: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. whiteout: Merriam-Webster
  3. whiteout: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. whiteout: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. whiteout: Collins English Dictionary
  6. whiteout: Vocabulary.com
  7. Whiteout, whiteout: Wordnik
  8. whiteout: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. whiteout: Wiktionary
  10. whiteout: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. whiteout: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. whiteout: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. whiteout: Dictionary.com
  14. Whiteout (EP), Whiteout (Follett novel), Whiteout (Judge Dredd novel), Whiteout (Marvel Comics), Whiteout (Oni Press), Whiteout (album), Whiteout (band), Whiteout (weather), Whiteout: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. whiteout: Rhymezone
  16. whiteout: FreeDictionary.org
  17. whiteout: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. whiteout: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whiteout: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whiteout: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Whiteout: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  2. whiteout: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Whiteout: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A heavy snowstorm; a blizzard.
noun:  Any weather condition in which visibility and contrast are severely reduced by snow or sand causing the horizon and physical features of the terrain to disappear.
noun:  Correction fluid (from the brand name Wite-Out).
noun:  (sports, slang) A sporting event where all in attendance are urged to wear white apparel.
noun:  (computing) The simulated erasure of a file, etc. on a read-only volume.
noun:  The suppression of a story by the media, analogously to deleting information with correction fluid.
noun:  The silencing of voices and perspectives other than those of white men.

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