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blackball

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈblækbɔːl/Part of speech noun, verbSorted aabbcklllStarts with BEnds with L0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto

Word origin

From black + ball.

Used in a sentence

  • Regardless how many other people may have voted to approve a candidate for membership, a single blackball will reject the candidate.
  • If you're not from a moneyed, well-connected family, you can count on getting blackballed from the fraternity.
  • 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.

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