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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. See '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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I too have found myself talking about piste runs and white-outs.
Find your ski legs; Hannah Stephenson takes a beginner's course in skiing at La Plagne in the Savoie area of the French Alps, attempts to keep up with her husband and discovers it's not such an ordeal after all I hadn't been on skis since my schooldays, when lessons were regimented, you were constantly cold and side-stepping up a nursery slope was the only option to warm up
Throughout his solo expedition, Richard faced the brutal Antarctic elements of white-outs, windchill and snow drifts called "sastrugi" and had to pull all his supplies in a small toboggan, which weighed about 68.
Frazzled Richard's delight at reaching pole position
There were periods where the weather was just appalling - when the wind and white-outs were very hard to deal with.
IN SCOTT'S FOOTSTEPS
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!
The pair reached their goal pulling sledges across the ice-cap after battling against ice pressure ridges, blizzards and white-outs.
Marines on top of the world; Pair eke out porridge and chocolate supply
But treacherous conditions, including frequent white-outs, have added time to the trip.
Parks due to complete South Pole expedition
Occasional white-outs caused by our lunar system but on the whole, nice and warm," Tate forecast - white-outs being sudden avalanches of Tippex.
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White-outs prompted a string of accidents on trunk roads such as the A470 linking North and South Wales, which was described as a 'car park'.
White Wales
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