blackball

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: verb

[VN] to prevent sb from joining a club or a group by voting against them: He was blackballed when he tried to join the Country Club.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

blackballEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary blackballEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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