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

  • 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
  • The Black Ball (film), an upcoming film

Games

  • Blackball, a monster in the Mystara campaign setting of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

Music

  • "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

  • The 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

  • 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 (gala), 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

  • Blackballed (disambiguation)
  • Blacklisting, listing people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted
  • Black Ball Line (disambiguation), several shipping companies