LekhoriLekhoriA rejection; a vote against admitting someone.
A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.
Regardless how many other people may have voted to approve a candidate for membership, a single blackball will reject the candidate.
A kind of large black sweet, a black-colored gobstopper.
To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.
If you're not from a moneyed, well-connected family, you can count on getting blackballed from the fraternity.
To ostracize.
A small town in Grey district, West Coast, New Zealand, with a history of gold and coal mining.
From black + ball.
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Henry knew. If he were blackballed by this distaff Mafia, he was doomed: Endless, but always justifiable, delays would occur in the work he wanted typed.