Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
A small town in Grey district, West Coast, New Zealand, with a history of gold and coal mining.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A rejection; a vote against admitting someone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A kind of large black sweet, a black-colored gobstopper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: niggerball
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A game, a standardized version of the English version of eight-ball.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: reds and yellows
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To ostracize.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: blacklist, send to Coventry, brush off, discount, disregard, dissemble, despise, ignore, misheed, misregard, neglect, pass, pass by, pay no heed, put aside, set at nought, shrug off, slough, take no notice of, tune out, unheed, unmind, black, blackball, boycott, cancel
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: barring
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ejection, exclusion, expulsion, riddance
verb
vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: veto, negative
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: oppose, controvert, contradict
Narrower terms: kill, shoot down, defeat, vote down, vote out
verb
expel from a community or group
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: banish, ban, ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: expel, throw out, kick out
History
From black + ball.
