Definition and meaning of blackball

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Blackball, black-ball or black ball may refer to:

  Society and culture

• Blackballing, ostracizing someone socially, e.g. prevention of finding local or field-specific employment, blacklisting from a club or other organization, etc.

  Geography

• Blackball, New Zealand, a small town located on the western coast of the South Island of New Zealand; see also Blackball Branch in the "Transportation" section, below.

  Games and sporting

• Blackball (pool), a variant of pocket billiards, sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association, popular in the UK and Australia among a few other places, and closely related to the American-style game of eight-ball

• The black ball or 8 ball in that game and in British pool in general

• Blackball, a pejorative term used to represent the Black baseball movement including the formation of Negro league baseball
• Blackball, a monster in the Mystara campaign setting of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

  Nautical

• "Blackball", a nickname for the letter  i  flag among the international maritime signal flags, featuring a black solid circle on a yellow background, and having specific additional meanings in certain contexts ("no surfing allowed in this area" at lifeguarded beaches, "no diving allowed in this area" at swimming pools, "gale warning" in a harbor, etc.)
• Black Ball Line (disambiguation), several shipping companies

  Film

• Blackball (film), a 2003 film starring Paul Kaye
• Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, a 2004 film starring Rob Corddry

  Music

• "Blackball" (The Offspring song), a song on their 1989 self-titled album
• "Blackball", a song by the industrial band KMFDM, on their 2003 album WWIII
• Blackball Records, a record label that releases music from the punk band Jawbreaker among others
• "Blackball", the second song on the 2008 Bigelf album Cheat the Gallows
• "Black Ball" a 90s christian punk band.

  Transportation

• Blackball Branch a branch railway line to Blackball, New Zealand (see "Geography" above).
• Black Ball Line, a name for the Puget Sound Navigation Company's ferry system (British Columbia, Canada, and Washington state, US)
• Black Ball Line (trans-Atlantic packet), a fleet of packet ships running between Liverpool and New York, the first scheduled trans-Atlantic service, founded in 1817

  Software

• BlackBall, Inc., a producer of digital asset management software.

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