Blackball

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A rejection; a vote against admitting someone.
2. isim 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. isim A kind of large black sweet, a black-colored gobstopper.
4. isim A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.
5. isim A game, a standardized version of the English version of eight-ball.
6. fiil 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. fiil To ostracize.

   “Henry knew. If he were blackballed by this distaff Mafia, he was doomed: Endless, but always justifiable, delays would occur in the work he wanted typed.”

8. özel isim A small town in Grey district, West Coast, New Zealand, with a history of gold and coal mining.