Blackball, black-ball, black ball, blackballed, or blackballing may refer to: *

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 typically used where an organization's rules provide that one or t ...

, a rejection in a traditional form of secret ballot

Film

* ''Blackball'' (film), a 2003 film starring Paul Kaye * '' 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 "Basic" version of the game throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Most adventures published for the "Basic" edition of ''D&D'' ...

campaign setting of ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons''

Music

* "Blackball" (The Offspring song), 1989 * "Blackball", a song by the industrial band KMFDM, on their 2003 album ''

WWIII World War III or the Third World War, often abbreviated as WWIII or WW3, are names given to a hypothetical worldwide large-scale military conflict subsequent to World War I and World War II. The term has been in use since at ...

'' * "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 � ...

Sports

* The in pocket billiards games including pool and snooker *

Blackball (pool) Blackball pool (sometimes written black ball), also known as English pool, English eight-ball or simply reds and yellows, is a pool game originating in the United Kingdom and popularized across Europe and The Commonwealth, such as Australia an ...

, 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 and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be ...

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

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Blackball, New Zealand Blackball is a small town on the West Coast, New Zealand, West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, approximately 29 km from Greymouth. Elevation is approximately 100 metres. The town was named after the Black Ball Line (trans-Atlantic p ...

, a small town located on the western coast of the South Island of New Zealand *

Blackball Branch The Blackball Branch was a branch line railway of New Zealand's national rail network on the West Coast of the South Island and worked from the 1900s to 1966. It included the Roa Branch, also known as the Roa Incline. Roa was sometimes known ...

a branch railway line to Blackball, New Zealand *

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 p ...

, an annual fundraising dance for the Keep a Child Alive charity * "Black ball", alternative name for

Shade ball Shade balls are small plastic spheres 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 ...

* 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.

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