Regardless how many other people may have voted to approve a candidate for membership, a single blackball will reject the candidate.
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Blackball
//ˈblækbɑl//
Synonyms for "blackball" (132 found)
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If you're not from a moneyed, well-connected family, you can count on getting blackballed from the fraternity.
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Why, if I had known you all my life I should have grown up in the condition of Adam before the fall, and they would have blackballed me at the clubs.
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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.
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