0 past simple and past participle of black
1 to put a black substance on something or to make something black:
2 If a trade union or other organization blacks goods or people, it refuses to handle or work with them.
The monitor was viewed in a blacked-out room.
Moreover, the elements of the fractionated community that do not fit this model of urban governance, such as drugs and crime, are blacked out, silenced.
As towns were blacked out at night, and the suspension of the driving test put more incompetent drivers on the road, the number of pedestrian deaths rose dramatically.
Greg developed dance pieces involving computer-controlled analogue synthesizers, in one case using light-sensitive controls activated when the dancers struck matches (on a blacked-out set).
A case tainted, as they see it, by work of this kind during the emergency period would then be subsequently blacked.
Everybody is going to be blacked out altogether.
Is he aware that items of great public interest and importance are now being blacked?
It will be blacked and will lie on the shop floor for as long as the dispute continues.
