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English

Etymology 1

From white +‎ wall.

Adjective

whitewall (not comparable)

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

Noun

whitewall (plural whitewalls)

  1. A tyre/tire with white sidewalls.
    • 1967, Portnoy's complaint:
      She'd look two hun-erd percent better with the whitewalls...
    • 1947 June 20, Tide, page 25:
      Sales points you just have to snap on the whitewalls; they are easy to clean, can't scuff on curbs […]
    • 1974, “Be Thankful for What You Got”, in Be Thankful for What You Got, performed by William DeVaughn:
      Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac / Gangsta whitewalls
    • 2008, Joey Green, Joey Green's Fix-It Magic: More Than 1,971 Quick-and-Easy Household Solutions Using Brand-Name Products‎:
      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.
    • 2009, William Kloefkorn, Breathing in the Fullness of Time‎:
      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.
  2. (US, military) A hair cut with a closely cropped back and sides and the hair on the top of the head left longer.
Translations

Etymology 2

See witwall.

Noun

whitewall (plural whitewalls)

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