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Blackball meaning
A rejection; a vote against admitting someone. | A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote. | A kind of large black sweet, a black-colored gobstopper.
Example sentences (9)
DJ Envy then added that he still plays Nicki's music and he doesn't have the power to blackball her from radio.
For more than 30 years it has floated amidst a riverscape dominated by the moody Paparoa Range to the west, and between the villages of Blackball and Ngahere on opposite sides of the river.
A Well there was a blackball blacklisted situation for a minute, but I don’t feel it’s there anymore.
He says the Senate Campaign Committee threatened to blackball consulting firms if they worked with his campaign.
Rob Lunn said Dobson township had snow falling solidly for about 30 minutes - something he had not seen since he was at primary school - and Blackball was under thick snow for a time.
While he said sorry for using bad language in front of the employee, the 'Wall Street' star insisted he did not blackball her and said it is a "complete lie" that he touched himself in front of her.
Philadelphia remained on top of the blackball world until Foster left the team in 1907 to play and manage the Leland Giants (Frank Leland renamed his Chicago Union Giants the Leland Giants in 1905).
Rickey saw the opportunity as a way to convince people that he was interested in cleaning up blackball, not integrating it.
The " two-shot rule " of blackball may or may not be followed; this depends on individual players and/or pubs.