Whitewall
adj, noun
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A tyre/tire with white sidewalls.
"She'd look two hun-erd percent better with the whitewalls..."
- 2 The spotted flycatcher. Northamptonshire, UK, dialectal, rare
"White wall (Northants)."
- 3 A hair cut with a closely cropped back and sides and the hair on the top of the head left longer. US
Adjective
- 1 Having white sidewalls (of a tyre/tire) not-comparable
"Jake had just installed a radar detector and four new whitewall tires."
- 2 Describing a hair cut with a closely cropped back and sides and the hair on the top of the head left longer. US, not-comparable
"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."
Example
More examples"Jake had just installed a radar detector and four new whitewall tires."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From white + wall.
Etymology 2
See witwall.
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