whitewall meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

whitewall

adj

Etymology From white + wall.

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:
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:

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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:

Government, Military, Politics, War US 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:
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:

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With a whitewall crew cut, high and tight.2016, Lee Child, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back: A Jack Reacher Novel:

noun

Etymology From white + wall.

A tyre/tire with white sidewalls.

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:

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Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac / Gangsta whitewalls1974, “Be Thankful for What You Got”, in Be Thankful for What You Got, performed by William DeVaughn:
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:
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:

Government, Military, Politics, War US A hair cut with a closely cropped back and sides and the hair on the top of the head left longer.

noun

Etymology See witwall.

Northamptonshire, UK, Dialectal, Rare The spotted flycatcher.

White wall (Northants).1885, Charles Swainson, Provincial Names and Folk Lore of British Birds, volume 32, Spotted flycatcher:
The beam-bird, Muscicapa grisola; the spotted flycatcher. Also whitewall, white-bird.1903, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia:

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Wall bird, wall-plat, white base, whitewall.1905, Alexander Robert Forbes, Gaelic Names of Beasts (Mammalia), Birds, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, Etc:

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