Blackout

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Blackout may refer to:

In electricity distribution:

• A power outage, a large-scale disruption in electric power supply
• Blackout (wartime), a reduction in lighting to protect a place from enemy attack

In medicine:

• An episode of fainting, a syncope (medical term), g-LOC (associated with flying) and possibly with a precursor greyout or brownout.
• The choking game, a dangerous, sometimes fatal, activity adolescents and teenagers partake in where oxygen and/or blood supply to the brain are compromised for a 'rush'
• A blackout is a term associated with the memory loss sometimes associated with the consumption of alcohol
• A phenomenon known as shallow water blackout and deep water blackout

In communications or telecommunications:

• Communications blackout, a military tactic of avoiding use of radio communication in an attempt to "hide" from the enemy
• Blackout (broadcasting), a regulatory ban, or embargo, on the broadcasting of an event, for example a television network may not be allowed to show a sporting event to a certain region or a press release is not permitted to be broadcast until a certain date and time.

In sport, entertainment and publishing:

• In theatre, a blackout is the act of turning off all the stage lights during a performance, often at the end of an act.
• In comedy, a brief sketch that ends with an abrupt punch line and no denouement is called a blackout. In stage settings, it is usually followed by a literal blackout of the lights, hence the name.
• Blackout (entertainer), the stage name of actor/singer/writer/film maker/radio host Michael Bigansky -also credited as Michael Biggins [1]
• Blackout (Scorpions album), a 1982 album and song by Scorpions
• Blackout (The Hed P.E. Album), a 2003 album by Hed P.E.
• Blackout (Dropkick Murphys album), a 2003 album by Dropkick Murphys
• Black Out, a 2002 album by The Good Life
• Blackout (game show), an American game show that briefly aired on CBS
• The Blackout (band), a Screamo/Post Hardcore Band From South Wales
• The Blackout, an independent wrestling stable.
• Blackout (Buffy novel), a Buffy novel about the character Nikki Wood
• Blackout Comics, a comic company owns Hari Kari
• Blackout, Marvel characters.
• Oh Hell, an easy-to-learn trick-taking card game nicknamed "Blackout"
• Blackout (Transformers) A character in the Transformers universes and 2007 movie
• "Blackout," a song by British Sea Power from their 2003 single The Decline of British Sea Power
• "Blackout," a song by Muse from their Absolution album
• Blackout an album by Dominion.
• Blackout!, a collaborative rap album from Redman and Method Man.
• Blackout Records, a record label.
• Black-Out, a Hungarian rock band.