1. blackout - Noun
2. blackout - Verb
a momentary loss of consciousness
the failure of electric power for a general region
darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)
a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting
partial or total loss of memory
Source: WordNetI acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the second world war. A. S. Byatt
Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks. Paul Gillmor
You sometimes wake up from a dream and think, "Thank God, I didn't really do that!" Reconstructing a period of blackout you think, "My God, did I really do that?" The line between saying and thinking is blurred. Did you say it or just think it? William S. Burroughs
I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker. Kamisese Mara
I walked to the window and ripped open the blackout blinds. Outside the sun was climbing into the sky. The war in Europe had ended. Omar Bradley
Education has paralleled the life of prospering white America: it has been characterized by reverence for efficiency, cultivation of competence unattended by concern for aim, big white lies, and the mainly successful blackout of Black life. June Jordan