Blackball vs Reject - What's the difference?
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A rejection, a vote against admitting someone.
A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.
the act of so rejecting someone.
A kind of large black sweet; a niggerball.
A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.
To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.
*1898 , Willa Cather, The Westbound Train
*:Why, if I had known you all my life I should have grown up in the condition of Adam before the fall, and they would have blackballed me at the clubs.
To ostracize.
To refuse to accept.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.