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Blacklist   /blˈæklˌɪst/   Listen
Blacklist

noun
1.
A list of people who are out of favor.  Synonyms: black book, shitlist.
verb
1.
Put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted.





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"Blacklist" Quotes from Famous Books



... Hathaway. And my name's Griggs; Griggs, of the Antelopes, back o' Carnadine—if anybody should ask you who give you your pointer on Simon Peter Judas. I don't blacklist no man in the dark, and I've said a heap more to that old ratter's face than I've ever said behind his back. Ump! him a-wrigglin' in that chair you're settin' in and tryin' to fix up some way to skin you! Don't tell me! I know blame' well what ...
— The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • Francis Lynde
... for you, Mayo. You are done in the yachting game, I'm afraid. He'll blacklist you in every yacht club from Bar Harbor to Miami. I have heard my folks talking about it. He seems to have a terrible grudge—more than a big man usually bothers about in the case ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day
... public to the existence of a labor question, and received considerable attention at the hands of the Senate Committee on Education and Labor. By the end of July, over a month after the beginning of the strike, the men who escaped the blacklist went back to work on the ...
— A History of Trade Unionism in the United States • Selig Perlman
... quit one coal camp and get out he is unskilled in other labor and if he should try to evade his store and other obligations with one coal company, the office employees have a way of passing on the information to another operation. There are ways of putting a laborer on the blacklist. ...
— Blue Ridge Country • Jean Thomas
... Continent for the purpose of using the stuff directly against the Grass. When he protested such a test would be quite useless and he could not bring himself to such disloyalty to his "chief," as he quaintly called Miss Francis, I had to threaten him with instant discharge and blacklist before he came to his senses. I'm sorry to say he turned out to be a completely unreliable young man, for the plane and its crew were never heard from again—a loss I felt deeply, for planes were becoming ...
— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore


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