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blackball🔊

A rejection; a vote against admitting someone.

A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.

A kind of large black sweet, a black-colored gobstopper.

A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.

A game, a standardized version of the English version of eight-ball.

To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.

💬 Quotations
Why, if I had known you all my life I should have grown up in the condition of Adam before the fall, and they would have blackballed me at the clubs.

To ostracize.

📑 Synonyms: blacklist
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