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whitewall

[hwahyt-wawl, wahyt-]

white·wall

[hwahyt-wawl, wahyt-]
noun
a rubber tire for an automobile, bicycle, etc., whose sidewall is colored white.
Also called whitewall tire.


Origin:
1950–55; white + (side)wall
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Whitewall is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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whitewall (ˈwaɪtˌwɔːl)
 
n
a pneumatic tyre having white sidewalls

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