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Blackball   Listen
verb
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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Words linked to "Blackball" :   shoot down, veto, ejection, contradict, cast out, exclusion, oppose, banish, barring, negative, kill, controvert, ostracise, shun, ostracize, riddance, ban, expel, expulsion, throw out, defeat, vote down


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