blacklistn.
/ˈblaklɪst/, U.S. /ˈblækˌlɪst/ 1.
a. A list of the names of people, groups, etc., who have incurred suspicion, censure, or displeasure, and are typically therefore subject to a ban or other punishment. Cf. black adj. 13.In 20th-cent. America frequently associated with McCarthyism n.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [noun] > censure or condemnation > black-listing > black list or book
black book1548
blacklist1624
shit-list1942
1624 Bp. J. Hall True Peace-maker 42 Ye secret oppressors,..ye kind drunkards, and who euer come within this blacke list of wickednesse.
1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat ii. i. sig. Dv The blacke list of those, That have nor fire, nor spirit of their owne.
1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. x. 220 If ever Charles his Posterity recover the Crown..you are like to be put in the Black List.
1774 Mrs. A. Adams Lett. (1848) 36 Mr. Boylston and Mr. Gill the printer, are held upon the black list.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. xlviii. 82 His memory was stored with a black list of enemies and rivals.
1822 Berrow's Worcester Jrnl. 30 May A list of the names of men notorious about town..is to be continued periodically; tradesmen contributing names from the black lists of their bad debts.
1830 Lady Morgan France in 1829–30 II. 538 Many of the magistrates and most popular representatives of the people were noted on its black lists.
1875 R. Hill & F. Hill What we saw in Austral. xv. 281 Culprits are put on the ‘black-list’, which involves the performance of disagreeable and dirty work.
1917 Times 31 Mar. 3/2 A firm included in the ‘black list’ issued under the Trading with the Enemy Act.
1920 Nature 27 May 392/2 A chapter is devoted to beasts which the author would place in a black list as having many undesirable proclivities.
1959 T. Williams Town Burning i. 10 They got me on a black list. I can't buy no beer in no grocery store.
2003 Time Out N.Y. 12 June 55/1 Victor Navasky..and Norma Barzman..discuss the Hollywood blacklist in the McCarthy and Ashcroft eras.
b. Nautical. A list of offenders to whom extra duty is assigned as a punishment. Also: the punishment of being put on the blacklist.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > other lists
roster1727
sick-list1748
size-roll1757
army list1763
retired list1797
succession1805
blacklist1825
active list1827
1825 W. N. Glascock Naval Sketch-bk. 246 Their name is enrolled in writing on the hateful memorial, emphatically denominated by sailors the ‘Black List’.
1834 ‘Old Sailor’ Tough Yarns 34 Almost every ship had a black list as long as the main-top bowline.
1902 W. Kennedy Sport in Navy 76 Ten days black list for the boat's crew for not giving way.
1914 Ld. C. Beresford Mem. I. 120 Such a process [sc. the spit-and-polish system] involves perpetual extra bother and worry and black-list.
1998 D. J. Ringle Life in Mr. Lincoln's Navy viii. 106 Men on the blacklist were subject to a variety of extra duties..including..removing ashes from the galley stove.
c. (a) A list, compiled by an employer (or group of employers), of workers whom it is considered undesirable to employ (now rare); (b) a trade union list of employers for whom members are instructed not to work.
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society > occupation and work > worker > one who does not work > [noun] > list of workmen not to be employed
blacklist1847
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [noun] > censure or condemnation > black-listing > black list or book > of employers or employees
blacklist1847
social register1945
1847 Times 5 Apr. 8/2 They said if I did not come out it would be worse for me, and I would be put down on the black list and prevented getting work anywhere else.
1888 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 611/2 He had got his name taken off from the black-list.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 786/2 The..dreaded weapon known as the ‘black list’, by which combinations of employers..drove employees inclined to ‘agitation’ out of employment.
1923 Managem. Engin. May 343/1 Blacklist, a list of union workmen circulated by employers to prevent such workers from being hired.
1998 K. K. Sklar in S. Strasser et al. Getting & Spending i. 22 The White List avoided the legal challenges that would have defeated the simpler strategy of publishing a black list of firms to boycott.
d. A list of people convicted as drunkards, spec. as habitual drunkards under the British Licensing Act of 1902 or various local and regional acts in the United States. Now historical.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess > company of
drunkship1486
pot parliament1529
blacklist1875
toperdom1891
1875 Ladies' Repository Dec. 555/1 At Rockford, Illinois, they have a black list of townspeople who ‘can not be trusted alone with a whisky bottle’; and one's name on this list debars him from obtaining a drink at a saloon.
1899 D. M. Ross Legislative Temperance Reform 22 A black list of habitual drunkards.
1903 Daily Chron. 19 Jan. 2/7 The first number of the ‘Black List’, issued under the new Licensing Act, was sent out from Scotland-yard on Saturday.
1920 Q. Rev. Jan. 133 The ‘Black List’ was the outcome of thoroughly wise legislative effort, but..it was impossible for a new tenant of licensed premises to recognise the habitual drunkards of the neighbourhood.
1994 Ohio Appellate Rep. 3rd Ser. 87 520 Prior to the enactment,..the law prohibited only the sale of alcoholic beverages to persons who were on the so-called black list issued by the department of liquor control.
2. A list of undesirable things, as misdeeds, diseases, banned items, etc. Also figurative.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > sick-list
sick-list1748
blacklist1853
disabled list1864
1768 J. Cremer Jrnl. 27 Jan. in R. R. Bellamy Ramblin' Jack (1936) 45 This was a weekly punishment, and a Black List called over of my past Week's Crimes.
1808 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 20 Feb. 311 The tythe farmer swells the black list of his enormities, by exacting the same amount of fees as the proctor.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxi. 267 Eight cases of scorbutic gums were already upon my black-list.
1879 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Austral. Grazier's Guide (1994) I. x. 79 Scab must be placed at the head of the black list, having done more damage, perhaps..than all the other diseases put together.
1903 Acad. & Lit. 21 Feb. 179/1 It is really time to compile a Black List of words and phrases that have appeared in Court so often as to suggest their immediate expulsion.
1981 V. Sjöblom & A. Voipio in A. Voipio Baltic Sea viii. 388 In these conventions there is a list containing substances the dumping of which is totally banned (often called the ‘black list’ in everyday speech).
1997 A. Farmer Managing Environmental Pollution (2002) iv. 106 A list of substances..so toxic that it is considered necessary to prevent pollution by them..is termed the ‘Black List’.
Derivatives
ˈblacklisted n. and adj. (a) n. (with the) people on a blacklist, regarded collectively; (b) adj. that is on a blacklist.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [adjective] > dispraised > censured or condemned > black-listed
blacklisted1856
1702 R. Cocks Diary 24 Feb. in D. W. Hayton Parl. Diary (1996) 224 This made all the black liste[d] buss [i.e. buzz] all over the house.
1856 Spuytenduyvel Chron. iii. 33 Miss Prim whirls pantingly in the arms of some black-listed refugee.
1887 J. D. Billings Hardtack & Coffee viii. 145 Among the tasks..for the black-listed to engage in, were policing the camp and digging and fitting up new company sinks.
1953 Times 16 Dec. 7/5 The replacement of black-listed school buildings.
1995 R. G. Powers Not without Honor (1998) ix. 249 The existence of the blacklist let the left shift attention from the communism for which the blacklisted were being persecuted to the fact of their persecution.
2003 InfoWorld 21 July 44/1 Blacklisted senders can deliver no e-mail whatsoever to servers or recipients that block blacklisted addresses.
ˈblacklister n. a person who is put on a blacklist.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess > alcoholic or habitual drinker
supper?1529
blow-bowl1530
drunkard1530
drunkera1538
blow-bottle1580
tippler1580
potman1589
red nose1591
sot1592
water rat1593
ply-pot1611
potter1632
pothead1639
pisspot1655
pitcher-man1665
whetter1709
inebriate1794
rummy1843
alcoholic1852
oenomaniac1857
dipsomaniac1858
alcoholizer1880
alcoholist1888
potationist1888
lush1890
rumdum1891
rumhound1895
blacklister1904
dipso1923
rumpot1929
alky1944
juice-head1955
alcohol abuser1965
juicer1967
substance abuser1967
jakey1988
1837 E. Howard Old Commodore III. v. 94 They will be grateful to me for this opportunity of showing that my lenity has not been misplaced. But I am not going to allow all of you black-listers this honour.
1904 Daily Chron. 16 Feb. 6/7 It was suggested that on the approach of a known ‘black-lister’ the police should give warning to the publican.
2001 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 Nov. iia 35/4 I think the best that can be said for the blacklisters is that they were right about Communism and wrong about the Constitution.
ˈblacklisting n.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [noun] > censure or condemnation > black-listing
blacklisting1718
1718 Mem. Life J. Kettlewell iii. §10. 212 This Method of Black-Listing had its original from a certain notion.
1822 Cursory Suggestions Naval Subj. 43 Stopping the allowance of spirits,..black-listing, and the imposition of extra duties, are also modes of punishment resorted to by many officers.
1955 Times 5 May 11/3 The recent blacklisting of two British and one Italian cargo steamers by the Alexandria customs administration.
2003 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 3 July 27 The black-listing of all Harry Potter books by the Nunawading Adventist Primary School two years ago.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
blacklistv.
/ˈblaklɪst/, U.S. /ˈblækˌlɪst/ transitive. To enter on a blacklist.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > dispraise or discommend [verb (transitive)] > censure or condemn > by entering in list or book
black-book1826
blacklist1837
1837 G. Home Mem. of Aristocrat iii. 150 Paddy C—n had..flogged half the ship's company at least,—stopped their grog,—black-listed them, and played the very devil.
1888 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 608/1 The manufacturers..had retaliated for some ‘labor troubles’..by ‘black-listing’ about thirty men.
1942 R. L. Haig-Brown Timber xviii. 264 If they'd blacklist him for risking lives I wouldn't give a damn.
1974 S. Terkel Working vii. 376 When the women organized their own circuit, they were blacklisted by the United States Lawn Tennis Association.
2007 Esquire Oct. 154/3 Lloyd's List..has already blacklisted the Somali coast for insurance purposes, placing it on an equal footing with Iraq.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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