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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



... casuistical construction of this Index. We, that are not by name included, may we consider ourselves indirectly licensed? Silence, I should think, gives consent. And if it wasn't that the present Pope, being a horrid Radical, would be sure to blackball me as an honest Tory, I would send him a copy of my Opera Omnia, requesting his Holiness to say, by return of post, whether I ranked amongst the chaff winnowed by St. Peter's flail, or had his gracious permission to hold myself ...
— Theological Essays and Other Papers v1 • Thomas de Quincey
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Words linked to "Blackball" :   negative, throw out, riddance, kick out, contradict, veto, vote down, oppose, shoot down, expulsion, exclusion, shun, ostracise, cast out, ostracize


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