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white-out
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white-out
Drug slang A street term for isobutyl nitrite Substance abuse A generic term for commercial products used to correct typed or written errors on paper documents by painting over them with an opaque white, rapid-drying liquid. Cf 'Gateway' drugs, Proposition 65, TCE. Cf Glue-sniffing Wildness medicine An arctic condition characterized by loss of object visualization caused by bright sunlight reflecting off snow, resulting in snow blindness. See Snow blindness.
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As a team we have dealt with white-outs, where it was impossible to distinguish the snow from the sky, rubble fields of broken ice and temperatures as low as -42AC.
PARTY AT THE POLE! by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
Anyone who remembers the great white-outs of the early '60s and '80s knows exactly how real snow can seriously affect our lives.
Enjoy it, it won't last by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
Heavy snow showers and drifts caused chaos for motorists yesterday with some roads hit by dangerous white-outs.
BLIZZARD WARNING by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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