Usually means: Applying black identity to non-blacks.
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  1. blackwash: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. blackwash: Collins English Dictionary
  3. blackwash: Vocabulary.com
  4. blackwash: Wordnik
  5. blackwash: Wiktionary
  6. blackwash: Dictionary.com
  7. Blackwash: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Blackwash: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. blackwash: Rhymezone
  10. Blackwash: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. blackwash: Free Dictionary
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  1. blackwash: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (blackwash)

noun:  (slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
noun:  (slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
noun:  (medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
noun:  (slang, mining) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.
noun:  (chiefly politics) A villainization campaign.
verb:  (transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.
verb:  (transitive) To cover with a black color.
verb:  (transitive) To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.

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