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Blackball  v. t.  (past & past part. blackballed; pres. part. blackballing)  
1.
To vote against, by putting a black ball into a ballot box; to reject or exclude, as by voting against with black balls; to ostracize. "He was blackballed at two clubs in succession."
2.
To blacken (leather, shoes, etc.) with blacking.





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"Blackball" Quotes from Famous Books



... now and then a skull and portions of skeleton came down with the rock. The peons had first balked at this, but the superintendent had told them the bones were merely strange shapes of ore, ordered them to break up the skulls and throw them in with the rest, and threatened to discharge and blackball any man who talked ...
— Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras - Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond • Harry A. Franck


Words linked to "Blackball" :   expulsion, banish, ban, kick out, barring, riddance, exclusion, negative, kill, expel, defeat, vote, contradict, shun, veto


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