blacking

A preparation, containing lampblack, used to produce a shiny black coating.

Noun

  1. A preparation, containing lampblack, used to produce a shiny black coating.
  2. Shoe polish.
  3. A boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
    • Instead, the unions persisted in believing they could defeat Murdoch through a unified campaign of picket lines, blackings and boycotts. - 2013, Graham Stewart, Bang!: A History of Britain in the 1980s:

Forms

blackings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of black