Blackball, black-ball, black ball, blackballed, or blackballing may refer to:
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Blackballing
Blackballing is a rejection in a traditional form of secret ballot, where a white ball or ballot constitutes a vote in support and a black ball signifies opposition. The system is commonly used where an organization's rules provide that one or tw ...
, a rejection in a traditional form of secret ballot
Film
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''Blackball'' (film), a 2003 film starring Paul Kaye
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Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story'', a 2004 film starring Rob Corddry
Games
* Blackball, a monster in the
Mystara
Mystara is a campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role playing game. It was the default setting for the Editions of Dungeons & Dragons, "Basic" version of the game throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Most adventures published for t ...
campaign setting of ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons''
Music
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"Blackball" (The Offspring song), 1989
* "Blackball", a Christian Hard Rock/Alternative band
* "Blackball", a song by the industrial band KMFDM, on their 2003 album ''
WWIII''
* "Blackball", the second song on the 2008 Bigelf album ''
Cheat the Gallows
''Cheat the Gallows'' is the third studio album by American progressive rock/progressive metal band Bigelf.
Track listing
Personnel
Bigelf
* Damon Fox – vocals, keyboards, string arrangements
* Ace Mark – guitar
* Duffy Snowhill ...
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Sports
* The in pocket billiards games including pool and snooker
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Blackball (pool)
The English-originating version of eight-ball pool, also known as English pool, English eight-ball'', ''blackball, or simply reds and yellows, is a pool game played with sixteen balls (a and fifteen usually unnumbered ) on a small pool tabl ...
, a variant of the pocket billiards game eight-ball
* Blackball, alternate name for
Negro league baseball
The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven relativel ...
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Blackball (surfing)
A blackball is a flag on a lifeguard tower or other highly visible area to show surfers that they must clear the water. A blackball flag is represented with a black circle in the center of a yellow or red flag; a yellow background being the most ...
, a flag to show surfers that they must clear the water
Other
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Blackball, New Zealand
Blackball is a small town on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, approximately 29 km from Greymouth. Elevation is approximately 100 metres.
Blackball was a centre of New Zealand radicalism and workers' militancy. It is cre ...
, a small town located on the western coast of the South Island of New Zealand
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Blackball Branch
The Blackball Branch was a branch line railway of New Zealand's Rail transport in New Zealand, national rail network on the West Coast, New Zealand, West Coast of the South Island and was operational from the 1900s to 1966. It included the Ro ...
, a branch railway line to Blackball, New Zealand
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The Black Ball The Black Ball is an annual fundraiser gala for Keep a Child Alive, the non-profit organization which brings dignified treatment, care and support to children and families affected by HIV. Keep a Child Alive's (KCA) Black Ball brings celebrity and ...
, an annual fundraising dance for the Keep a Child Alive charity
* "Black ball", alternative name for
Shade ball
A shade ball is a small plastic sphere floated on top of a reservoir for environmental reasons, including to slow evaporation and prevent sunlight from causing reactions among chemical compounds present in the water. Also known as bird balls, the ...
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Black Ball: a round black shape hoisted at a ship's mast head, with various contextual meanings.
* "Blackballing", a form of male
hazing
Hazing (American English), initiation, beasting (British English), bastardisation (Australian English), ragging (South Asian English) or deposition refers to any activity expected of someone in joining or participating in a group that humiliates, ...
ritual in which the victim's genitals are covered in black shoe polish. Common in British boarding schools and fraternities.
See also
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Blackballed (disambiguation) Blackballed may refer to:
* Blackballed (band), a UK rock band from Manchester.
* '' Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story'', a 2004 comedy film.
See also
* Blackball (disambiguation)
* Blackballing
Blackballing is a rejection in a traditional ...
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Blacklisting
Blacklisting is the action of a group or authority compiling a blacklist of people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted as being deemed unacceptable to those making the list; if people are on a blacklist, then they are considere ...
, listing people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted
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Black Ball Line (disambiguation), several shipping companies
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