2. Verb. (third-person singular of blackball) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blackballs
1. blackball [v] - See also: blackball
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blackballs
Literary usage of Blackballs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Blackhalls of that Ilk and Barra: Hereditary Coroners and Foresters of by Alexander Morison (1905)
"He makes some reference to the blackballs of that Ilk in his preface, states that
Father Blackhall nowhere mentions that he was connected with this family, ..."
2. Scottish Notes and Queries edited by John Bulloch (1899)
"937, and was born in 1835, at blackballs, Cruden, where his father was temporarily
engaged in farm service. He was sent to farm service when only 12 years ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1880)
"On opening the ballot-box the chair announced that three blackballs bad been cast.
On the statement of the Executive Committee that no objection had been ..."
4. The British Gynaecological Journal by British Gynaecological Society (1904)
"By the alteration in the Articles of Association making the Council the elective
body, the blackballs became useless, and Section II., No. ..."
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