How do you pronounce blackouts?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈblækaʊts/.

blackouts

/ˈblækaʊts/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.90 in modern English

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noun

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"[…] 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!"
"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."

black-outs (alternative)

twilights

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