blackball
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Is blackball a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of blackball?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable) A rejection; a vote against admitting someone.countable
2. (countable) A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.Examples: "Regardless how many other people may have voted to approve a candidate for membership, a single blackball will reject the candidate."countable
3. (countable) A kind of large black sweet, a black-colored gobstopper.Synonyms: niggerballcountable
4. (uncountable) A game, a standardized version of the English version of eight-ball.Synonyms: reds and yellowsuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.Examples: "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."transitive
2. (transitive) To ostracize.Examples: "Henry knew. If he were blackballed by this distaff Mafia, he was doomed: Endless, but always justifiable, delays would occur in the work he wanted typed."; "My father sure could have used a union. The monopoly that controlled the bank vault installation business blackballed him when he was in his late fifties because he'd gone to work for a rival company that immediately went belly-up. If he'd been in a union he'd have got his job back.""; "The actor Katherine Kendall has revealed how the fear of being “blackballed” by Hollywood’s powerbrokers stopped her from making claims of sexual harassment."Synonyms: blacklist, send to Coventry, brush off, disregard, dissemble, ignore, slough, discounttransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary