A state of total social withdrawal, digital silence, or intense focus where someone cuts off all outside contact and goes completely dark — no texts, no posts, no replies. Blackout mode can also describe someone who is drinking or partying so intensely they are fully detached from reality. Used both to describe purposeful isolation and the chaos of losing all memory of a night.
She put her phone on do not disturb, deleted her socials for the week, and entered full blackout mode to finish her thesis.
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