| 单词 | blackball |
| 释义 | blackball (once / 28969 pages) vn When you blackball someone, you ban him from a group. A bunch of kids who kick a tattletale out of their secret club essentially blackball him. You can use blackball as a noun or a verb — a blackball is an act of excluding or ostracizing someone. Country club members might initiate a blackball against an eccentric member who wears tie dyed t-shirts on the golf course, for example. The origin of the word goes back to the 1700s, when club members would cast secret votes on membership using white and black wooden or ivory balls. The black balls represented "no" votes. WORD FAMILYblackball: blackballed, blackballing, blackballs USAGE EXAMPLESMr. Williams threatened a lawsuit and did his best to blackball them among Liverpool concert promoters. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) He later added that he felt like he would be “blackballed” from the industry for his comments. Seattle Times(Dec 07, 2016) Yet the notoriously thin-skinned Trump, our president-elect, is threatening to blackball reporters who write things he doesn’t like, including things that are true. Seattle Times(Dec 02, 2016) 1v vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent Syn|Hypo|Hyper negative, veto defeat, kill, shoot down, vote down, vote out thwart the passage of contradict, controvert, oppose be resistant to 2v expel from a community or group Syn|Hyper ban, banish, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun expel, kick out, throw out force to leave or move out 3n the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto Syn|Hyper barring ejection, exclusion, expulsion, riddance the act of forcing out someone or something |
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