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blackball

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Is blackball a Scrabble word?

Yes, blackball is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 19 points in Scrabble.

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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

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "blackball"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "blackball"?

Scrabble
19 points
B3
L1
A1
C3
K5
B3
A1
L1
L1
Words With Friends
25 points
B4
L2
A1
C4
K5
B4
A1
L2
L2

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