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whitewall en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From white + wall.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Having white sidewalls (of a tyre/tire)
   • Jake had just installed a radar detector and four new whitewall tires. 1987, “The Case of the Wool's Worth”, in The Jewish Law Review: The Mishnah on damages:
   • I was shocked the other day when I Walmart that I could not find a whitewall tire for sale. 2015, Neal Murphy, East Texas Serendipity: Discovering Stories, History, and Tales from an East Texan’s Perspective:
   • The UniRoyal Tiger Pay Touring whitewall tire is not a performance tire, but it is totally acceptable for street use. 2007, George McNicholl, How to Rebuild Corvette Rolling Chassis 1963-1982:
2. (US, not-comparable) Describing a hair cut with a closely cropped back and sides and the hair on the top of the head left longer.
   • A weird elongated creature with a whitewall haircut who had the big head as well as hands and fat thighs of the acromegalic, he was an uninhibited cross-dresser suffering from Gender Identity Disorder who constantly appeared in frocks. 2007, Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic: Or, The Sexual Intellectual:
   • With a whitewall crew cut, high and tight. 2016, Lee Child, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back: A Jack Reacher Novel:
   • A blond kid with a whitewall haircut and long, thin sideburns came over to stand beside the kid with the wimpy Roman do. 2011, Mike Stewart, A Clean Kill:

whitewall en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From white + wall.

Meanings

1. A tyre/tire with white sidewalls.
   • To clean whitewalls on tires, spray Easy-Off Oven Clearn on the whitewalls, wait two minutes, and then rince off with a high pressure hose. 2008, Joey Green, Joey Green's Fix-It Magic: More Than 1,971 Quick-and-Easy Household Solutions Using Brand-Name Products:
   • Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac / Gangsta whitewalls 1974, “Be Thankful for What You Got”, in Be Thankful for What You Got, performed by William DeVaughn:
   • They owned two of the largest houses in town; and they drove the latest Chevrolets available, 1941 models, both cars still sporting whitewall tires, which meant that the man who said he hadn't seen a whitewall since Hector was a pup was perhaps stretching the truth. 2009, William Kloefkorn, Breathing in the Fullness of Time:
   • She'd look two hun-erd percent better with the whitewalls... 1967, Portnoy's complaint:
   • Sales points you just have to snap on the whitewalls; they are easy to clean, can't scuff on curbs […] 1947 June 20, Tide, page 25:
2. (US) A hair cut with a closely cropped back and sides and the hair on the top of the head left longer.

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Translations (2)

sv (vit) däcksida (tyre with white sidewalls) · de Weißwandreifen (tyre with white sidewalls)

whitewall en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

See witwall.

Meanings

1. (Northamptonshire, UK, dialectal, rare) The spotted flycatcher.
   • Wall bird, wall-plat, white base, whitewall. 1905, Alexander Robert Forbes, Gaelic Names of Beasts (Mammalia), Birds, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, Etc:
   • The beam-bird, Muscicapa grisola; the spotted flycatcher. Also whitewall, white-bird. 1903, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia:
   • White wall (Northants). 1885, Charles Swainson, Provincial Names and Folk Lore of British Birds, volume 32, Spotted flycatcher:

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