white up
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.46 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The final scene is a ritual penitence: as he leaves the park, he comes upon a student rag group, all whited up as clowns."
- "...performance reception was hardly a possibility in 1940s America, which is why the producers had to white up Lee."
- "White Chicks deploys a "reverse" minstrel show technique. Instead of whites "blacking up" to ridicule the oppressed Other, black men (Shawn and Marlon Wayans) "white up" to reveal and critique various instantiations of whiteness."
- "Nick Hedges was a disciple of the avant-garde dancer and choreographer Lindsay Kemp, whose style was for all the performers to white up their face like clowns and move very slowly."
- "In Ghana and Cape Town, Jamaica and Trinidad, local performers blacked up (and whited up and redded up) and created a global form with politics more slippery than anything T. D. Rice ever imagined."