Blackball, black-ball, black ball, blackballed, or blackballing may refer to:
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Blackballing, 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 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''
* "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 â ...
''
Sports
* The in pocket billiards games including pool and snooker
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Blackball (pool), 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 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, 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
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Blackball Branch a branch railway line to Blackball, New Zealand
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The Black Ball, an annual fundraising dance for the Keep a Child Alive charity
* "Black ball", alternative name for
Shade ball
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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
*
Blackballed (disambiguation)
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Blacklisting
Blacklisting is the action of a group or authority compiling a blacklist (or black list) of people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted as being deemed unacceptable to those making the list. If someone is on a blacklist, t ...
, listing people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted
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Black Ball Line (disambiguation) Black Ball Line or Blackball Line may refer to:
* 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
* Black Ball Line (Liverpool), a ...
, several shipping companies
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