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blackball
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Wikipedia
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Blackball is a 2003 British sports comedy film. Tim Firth wrote the screenplay, and it was directed by Mel Smith . Its fictional plot is based on the bowls player Griff Sanders .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ In 1962, Freed was fined $300 and blackballed from radio.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also black-ball , "to exclude from a club by adverse votes," 1770, from black (adj.) + ball (n.1). Black balls of wood or ivory dropped into an urn during secret ballots.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A rejection, a vote against admitting someone. 2 A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote. 3 the act of so rejecting someone. 4 A kind of large black sweet; a niggerball. 5 A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto [syn: barring ] v. expel from a community or group [syn: banish , ban , ostracize , ostracise , shun , cast out ] vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent; "The President vetoed the bill" ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blackball \Black"ball`\, n. A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work. A ball of black color, esp. one used as a negative in voting; -- in this sense usually two words.
Usage examples of blackball.
If a man put up for the club who had an open mind on the subject of property in umbrellas, I should blackball him.
There was no pipeclay here to be caked onto crossbelts and musket slings, no blackball to be used on boots and no grease and powder to be slathered on the hair.
I was the one who blackballed you with the Rocket Company five years ago.
Tenderloin as a form of revenge against the pack of Bone Gnawers who had blackballed him for smoking crack.
The last time you blackballed someone, that Garou came into the Tenderloin killing homeless as a form of revenge.
As far as they were concerned, this renegade Garou had been blackballed and therefore did not exist.
Maybe there was something within the fetish that made blackballed Bone Gnawers want to kill the homeless.
Probably because the Bradens virtually blackballed them from the social circuit.
Members were blackballed without refund of fees if they were connected to the slightest public mention, and the enormous fees they paid, as well as our investigative process, thoroughly eliminated reporter spies.
You will be blackballed from the houses of the trainers who sell to us as well.
All he knew was horses and cattle, and if he made an enemy of Bly he would be blackballed around every rodeo in the country.
Members were blackballed without refund of fees if they were connected to the slightest public mention, and the enormous fees they paid, as well as our investigative process, thoroughly eliminated reporter spies.
If you do not leave and come back with us now on the plane of your free will—and I assure you no one is going to lay a hand on you to try to force you to do that—you will be blackballed utterly and entirely and forever from The Club.
You will be blackballed from the houses of the trainers who sell to us as well.
His only recourse was to leave his ship, to exchange it for virtual oblivion, for, apart from the fact that he was automatically blackballed, unemployment was high in the Merchant Navy and the few vacancies available were for willing serfs only.