blackball

1. 1.

   the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto

   Synonymsbarring

   Broaderejection

Other forms of blackball

plural

blackballs·

past tense

blackballed·

present participle

blackballing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about blackball

What does blackball mean?

blackball means "expel from a community or group". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blackball?

blackball has 2 syllables: black-ball. The stress falls on "black". In IPA it is /ˈblækˌbɔl/.

What is another word for blackball?

Close synonyms include banish, ban, ostracize, ostracise, shun. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blackball a common word?

blackball is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with blackball?

24 words rhyme with blackball. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.