Usually means: Excluded by group consensus vote.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. blackballed: Merriam-Webster
  2. blackballed: Collins English Dictionary
  3. blackballed: Vocabulary.com
  4. Blackballed, blackballed: Wordnik
  5. blackballed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. blackballed: Wiktionary
  7. Blackballed, blackballed: Dictionary.com
  8. Blackballed (band), Blackballed (disambiguation), Blackballed (film), Blackballed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Blackballed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Blackballed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. blackballed: FreeDictionary.org
  12. blackballed: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blackballed: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blackballed: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See blackball as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (blackball)

noun:  (countable) A rejection; a vote against admitting someone.
noun:  (countable) A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.
noun:  (countable) A kind of large black sweet, a black-colored gobstopper.
noun:  A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.
noun:  (uncountable) A game, a standardized version of the English version of eight-ball.
verb:  (transitive) To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.
verb:  (transitive) To ostracize.
▸ Also see blackball


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