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Blackball, black-ball, black ball, blackballed, or blackballing may refer to:
- Blackballing, a rejection in a traditional form of secret ballot
Film
[edit]- Blackball (film), a 2003 film starring Paul Kaye
- Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, a 2004 film starring Rob Corddry
Games
[edit]- Blackball, a monster in the Mystara campaign setting of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
Music
[edit]- "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
Sports
[edit]- The black ball in pocket billiards games including pool and snooker
- Blackball (pool), a variant of the pocket billiards game eight-ball
- Blackball, alternate name for Negro league baseball
- Blackball (surfing), a flag to show surfers that they must clear the water
Other
[edit]- Blackball, New Zealand, a small town located on the western coast of the South Island of New Zealand
- Blackball Branch a branch railway line to Blackball, New Zealand
- The Black Ball, an annual fundraising dance for the Keep a Child Alive charity
- "Black ball", alternative name for Shade ball
- Black Ball: a round black shape hoisted at a ship's mast head, with various contextual meanings.
- "Blackballing", a form of male hazing ritual in which the victim's genitals are covered in black shoe polish. Common in British boarding schools and fraternities.
See also
[edit]- Blackballed (disambiguation)
- Blacklisting, listing people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted
- Black Ball Line (disambiguation), several shipping companies