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Blackball   /blˈækbˌɔl/   Listen
Blackball

verb
(past & past part. blackballed; pres. part. blackballing)
1.
Expel from a community or group.  Synonyms: ban, banish, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun.
2.
Vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent.  Synonyms: negative, veto.






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"Blackball" Quotes from Famous Books



... was entirely neglected. I attended no school at this time, either summer or winter, and came as near acquiring a trade as I have ever done. In fact I longed to be able to make the whole of a boot, to last, peg, trim, gum, blackball and stone it, all processes of the craft as then practised. But how does one know when he is learning? I was laying up a good store of things more valuable than any in books, whilst the free life I led was preparing ...
— Confessions of Boyhood • John Albee

... way." The Prince of Wales's travels in his nonage have made Telemachus a tortoise, and the young Anacharsis a stay-at-home. Married couples spend their honeymoon hippopotamus hunting in Abyssinia, or exploring the sources of the Nile. And the Traveller's Club are obliged to blackball nine-tenths of the candidates put up for election, because now-a-days almost every tolerably educated Englishman has travelled more than six hundred miles in a straight direction from the ...
— The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 • George Augustus Sala



Words linked to "Blackball" :   kick out, riddance, vote down, oppose, throw out, contradict, expel, ostracize, shoot down, kill, ejection, vote, controvert, defeat, vote out, exclusion, expulsion



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