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• n  a substance used to produce a shiny protective surface on footwear
• v  make or become black

• And on Muhammad's face there was an oblong too, blacking out his eyes.
• From peanuts he made nearly 300 substances; from sweet potatoes 118, including starch, vinegar, shoe-blacking, library paste, candy.
• It is hardly news to Dickens specialists today that the blacking-factory episode, as Wilson puts it, "provided nearly a lifetime's impetus toward artistic creation.

• shoe polish
• blacken
• melanize
• melanise
• nigrify
• black

• whiten

News & Articles

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• Slipknot Drummer Says Live Show Is Like A Blackout Recap
  Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison compares his experience of playing live with the band to blacking out and insists there's no such thing as an easy set for them
  June 16, 2013 - antiMUSIC

Quotes

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• Horacio Ramirez in Colorado Rockies News
  The only thing I remember is finishing the pitch,Ramirez said. "I really don't recall the ball hitting me. ...... I don't recall blacking out. It all just happened so quick."
• Sonia Rolland in Times Online (blog)
  Sonia Rolland, an actress who is part-Rwandan and a former Miss France, said: "Dumas had quite African features. In this film, they are hiding his history, blacking him up and putting curls on a Gaulish head. In the midst of our debate on national...