Other forms: blackouts
A blackout is a complete loss of electric light. A power blackout, the whole street was in blackout, a rolling blackout.
Rolling blackouts are deliberate cuts made in turn to spread limited supply. In wartime Britain, the blackout was the rule requiring every window to be covered so that bombers could see no lights, and blackout curtains are still sold under that name. A news blackout is a ban on reporting. And a blackout is also a temporary loss of consciousness or memory. Note black out as two words, which is the verb.
1nounblackoutA complete loss of electric light.
“During the blackout, we lit candles and played cards in the kitchen.”
2nountemporaryA temporary loss of consciousness or memory.
“He had a blackout and remembers nothing of that evening.”
3nounbanA ban on reporting something.
“The army imposed a news blackout, so nobody knew what was happening at the front.”
blackout is a loss of light or awareness.
Deverbal from black out.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Phrasal Verbs, Emergency & Rescue