0 past simple and past participle of blackball --
1 to vote against allowing someone to be a member of an organization or group: --
If the records remain of some of those 1,416 innocent men, and are so recorded on the national computer, they will be blackballed for life.
If that happened in private commercial circles, it would not be tolerated; the person in question would be blackballed.
There is no need to explain why he was blackballed or by whom.
She cuts somebody, and the man is blackballed in his club.
Most clubs are exclusive in the sense that you can be blackballed because people do not want you.
There will have to be safeguards, as situations could arise in which someone who is wrongly listed is blackballed from work because of an error.
We shall call them zealously blackballed.
Both of the turnout rates in the blackballed districts are higher than in the districts without any blackballed candidates (by 2.5 percentage points and 1.0 percentage points respectively).
