blackouts

See also: Blackouts, black-outs, Black-outs, and black outs

English

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  • IPA(key): /ˈblækaʊts/

Noun

blackouts

  1. plural of blackout

Noun

blackouts pl (plural only)

  1. (military, slang, historical) Long, dark-coloured underwear worn by the WAAF in winter.
    Coordinate term: twilights
    • 1995, Beryl E. Escott, Our Wartime Days: The WAAF in World War 2, page 35:
      […] her blackouts. When the Officer inspected everything went well. The only thing was that two of our WAAF were not wearing any knickers at all!
    • 2011 December 13, Peter Liddle, Captured Memories, 1930–1945: Across the Threshold of War: The Thirties and the War‎[1], Casemate Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC:
      We had what were called the ‘blackouts’ and ‘twilights’. The blackouts were a dark sort of long-legged knickers, dark wintry ones, and the twilights were a lighter blue in a sort of Celanese material.

Portuguese

Noun

blackouts

  1. plural of blackout

Spanish

Noun

blackouts m pl

  1. plural of blackout
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