English-Finnish translations for blackball

Definition of blackball

• A rejection; a vote against admitting someone
• A kind of large black sweet; a niggerball
• To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization
• To ostracize

Examples

• Regardless how many other people may have voted to approve a candidate for membership, a single blackball will reject the candidate
• If youre not from a moneyed, well-connected family, you can count on getting blackballed from the fraternity

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