Blackball
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Blackball or black ball can mean several things:
- Blackball, New Zealand, a small town located on the South Island of New Zealand
- Blackball or blacklist, a voting method used to exclude a person from an organization or process
- Blackball, to exclude socially: ostracize
- Black Ball Line, a name for the Puget Sound Navigation Company ferry systems (British Columbia, Canada and Washington state, USA)
[edit] Games
- Blackball (pool), a variant of pocket billiards, sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association, and popular in the UK and Australia among a few other places, and closely related to the American-style game of eight-ball
- Blackball, a pejorative term used to represent the Black baseball movement including the formation of Negro league baseball
[edit] Music
- "Blackball", a song by the punk band The Offspring, on their 1989 album The Offspring
- "Blackball", a song by the industrial band KMFDM, on their 2003 album WWIII
- Blackball Records, a record label that releases music from the punk band Jawbreaker among others
[edit] Films
- Blackball, a 2003 film starring Paul Kaye
- Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, a 2004 film starring Rob Corddry