What is the meaning of "a blacked-out tooth"?
Supposedly clean-living Robbie turned up at Glastonbury with bleach-blond hair and a blacked-out tooth, waving champagne and cigarettes.

*Thanks in advance

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What is the meaning of "a blacked-out tooth"?
Supposedly clean-living Robbie turned up at Glastonbury with bleach-blond hair and a blacked-out tooth, waving champagne and cigarettes.

*Thanks in advance

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i think it means he painted a tooth black to look like it was missing or rotten

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Sugarmoon is right.  It can even mean that the tooth was totally missing.  To black out has two general meanings.  One is to lose consciousness (so literally you see no light and are blacked out) and the other is to darken something or something it black or cause it to fade away.  So, "the stage blacked out", and "her chances of success were blacked out"  would mean, the stage lights went out and  her chances of success went away.

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