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blackouts

/ˈblækaʊts/

noun black-outs

plural plural of blackout

noun black-outs

historical, plural, plural only, slang Long, dark-coloured underwear worn by the WAAF in winter. […] 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!

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@misc{blackouts_2026,
  title = {blackouts},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/blackouts},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}