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white-out definition

☆ white·-out (-o̵ut′)

noun

a quick-drying fluid, typically white, applied with a small brush to a piece of paper so as to cover typed or written errors and make a blank surface for corrections

Etymology: < Wite-Out, a trademark for such fluid, prob. infl. by whiteout

transitive verb

to cover with this fluid
Also white out

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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