whitewall

adj

1. (not-comparable)Having white sidewalls (of a tyre/tire)

   “Jake had just installed a radar detector and four new whitewall tires.”

   “The UniRoyal Tiger Pay Touring whitewall tire is not a performance tire, but it is totally acceptable for street use.”

   “I was shocked the other day when I Walmart that I could not find a whitewall tire for sale.”

2. (US, not-comparable)Describing a hair cut with a closely cropped back and sides and the hair on the top of the head left longer.

   “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.”

   “A blond kid with a whitewall haircut and long, thin sideburns came over to stand beside the kid with the wimpy Roman do.”

   “With a whitewall crew cut, high and tight.”

noun

1. A tyre/tire with white sidewalls.

   “She'd look two hun-erd percent better with the whitewalls...”

   “Sales points you just have to snap on the whitewalls; they are easy to clean, can't scuff on curbs […]”

   “Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac / Gangsta whitewalls”

   “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.”

   “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)A hair cut with a closely cropped back and sides and the hair on the top of the head left longer.
3. (Northamptonshire, UK, dialectal, rare)The spotted flycatcher.

   “White wall (Northants).”

   “The beam-bird, Muscicapa grisola; the spotted flycatcher. Also whitewall, white-bird.”

   “Wall bird, wall-plat, white base, whitewall.”