whitewash 

A term that now has also come to refer to the entertainment industry's attempt at making ethnic characters more appealing to the white, money-spending masses by making exotic characters less ethnic and more "white."

Isn't Chun Li supposed to be 100% Chinese? Why did Hollywood totally whitewash her and cast a half-asian actress to play her in that horrible new Street Fighter movie??

Thanks to commercial whitewashing, every token "black" girl on tv has become a light skinned black girl. This does not bode well for dark skinned black actresses.

whitewash by New Webster's Dictionary July 6, 2010

whitewash 

1. to win decisively, especially before the other side can achieve a single goal

2. to make something undesirable, damaging seem legitimate or acceptable, usually by falsification or concealment

They Just whitewashed the election.

whitewash by The Return of Light Joker September 30, 2009

whitewash 

(n., v., or adj.) A process or result or act: when a person who is considered a minority adopts a lifestyle (including speech, mannerisms, clothing, etc.) that is attributed secludedly to those of European descent, white people.

1. She is whitewashed.

whitewash by SugarBear September 13, 2005

whitewash 

A term used, apparently, only where it snows. A whitewash is when you grab somebody by the back of the head, usually when wrestling, and rub their face into the snow. This is a technique primarily used during snowball fights. Made better when the whitewashee bleeds. Distant relative: the swirly.

Dude, AJ face-planted while boarding today, and Chris whitewashed him on the bunny hill!!

whitewash by mr. fluffy December 16, 2006

whitewash 

It basically means to let go of your nationality and acting in ways "white".

Wow she just came to this country yet she doesn't have the slightest accent and rocks our style! She is soo whitewash.

whitewash by raspberry13 January 4, 2008

whitewash 

When a college basketball team of lesser talent inserts five small white guys against a stronger, more athletic team. special thanks to ESPN's Bill Simmons

Man, Bucknell totally whitewashed Kansas for the upset

whitewash by Kyle March 22, 2005

Whitewash 

While masturbating, a sexually deprived man orgasims with such magnitude that it is caught by his ceiling fan and distributed along the wall.

"What the hell is that on your wall Toomay?" "Keshia cut me off a few weeks ago and I decided to whitewash the wall."

Whitewash by Brahbrah December 12, 2012