black up

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black up

verb blacks up · blacking up · blacked up

  1. intransitive, literally, transitive To become or make (something) black or darker.
  2. intransitive, transitive To put on or wear blackface makeup. Cantor starts blacking up, right then and there, painting his face with a burnt piece of cork.
  3. transitive To make something (e.g. a film, cast, story line, etc.) more racially black in character; blackenize.

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