blackball

About 0.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A rejection; a vote against admitting someone.
2. noun A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.

   Regardless how many other people may have voted to approve a candidate for membership, a single blackball will reject the candidate.

3. noun A kind of large black sweet, a black-colored gobstopper.
4. noun A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.
5. noun A game, a standardized version of the English version of eight-ball.
6. verb To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.

   If you're not from a moneyed, well-connected family, you can count on getting blackballed from the fraternity.

7. verb To ostracize.

Similar words

veto ostracize shun banish cast out negative ban barring black rejection

Often followed by

stars him the me you ghosts a and her

Word family

blackballed blackballing blackballs