Noun blackball has 1 sense
  1. barring, blackball - the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto
    --1 is a kind of ejection, exclusion, expulsion, riddance
    Derived form: verb blackball1
,Verb blackball has 2 senses
  1. banish, ban, ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball - expel from a community or group
    --1 is one way to expel, throw out, kick out
    Derived form: noun blackball1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
  2. veto, blackball, negative - vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent; "The President vetoed the bill"
    --2 is one way to oppose, controvert, contradict
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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