Crossword-Solution: BLACKBALL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Blackball | n. | A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work. |
| Blackball | n. | A ball of black color, esp. one used as a negative in voting; -- in this sense usually two words. |
| Blackball | v. t. | 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. |
| Blackball | v. t. | To blacken (leather, shoes, etc.) with blacking. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “BLACKBALL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| exclude from a group | 1 answer |
| Vote to exclude | 1 answer |
| Threat in a Ralph Ellison short story | 1 answer |
| REJECT candidate | 1 answer |
| Offspring song that will give a negative vote? | 1 answer |
| Bar from joining a private club, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Prevent from joining a social group | 3 answers |
| Vote against. | 4 answers |
| Ostracize | 6 answers |
| Shut out | 19 answers |
| De-port? | 29 answers |
| Debar | 31 answers |
| ostracise | 38 answers |
| Banish | 47 answers |
| Disqualify | 49 answers |
| Exclude | 55 answers |
| Cast aside | 62 answers |
| boycott | 63 answers |
| exile | 65 answers |
| Veto | 74 answers |
| Except | 76 answers |
| Ban | 77 answers |
| Bounce | 85 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BLACKBALL (5)
Its members receive a salary, and "the subjects elected[6237] must be confirmed by the First Consul." Moreover, Napoleon has only to utter a word to insure votes for the candidate whom he approves of, or to blackball the candidate whom he dislikes.
From Heidelberg we went to Baden-Baden: and, I dare say, saw Madame de Schlangenbad and Madame de la Cruchecassee, and Count Punter, and honest Captain Blackball.
You may be sure some of the proud people and most of the parvenus of the Club were ready to blackball him.
The peons had first balked at this, but the superintendent had told them the bones were merely strange shapes of ore, ordered them to break up the skulls and throw them in with the rest, and threatened to discharge and blackball any man who talked of the matter.
Garrick--your friend, your companion--blackball him!" "Why, sir," replied Johnson, "I love my little David dearly--better than all or any of his flatterers do; but surely one ought to sit in a society like ours, "'Unelbowed by a gamester, pimp, or player.'" The exclusion from the club was a sore mortification to Garrick, though he bore it without complaining.
Quotes with BLACKBALL (1)
See, far above arrogance and selfishness on the rankings of undesirable Lifestyle traits, topping the lengthy list of carnal sins, occupying its very own stratosphere of unforgivablereprehensibility, is lying. Without question, fibbing is the fastest way to secure a one-way trip to blackball status in the swing community. So assured is a liar’s exile from the Lifestyle that should a perjurer come clean about a material untruth and still secure playtime, that individual will h…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Rock & Roll, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1965–2024).