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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

• Blackball (film), a 2003 film starring Paul Kaye
• Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, a 2004 film starring Rob Corddry
• The Black Ball (film), a 2026 film

Games

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

(See also the "Sports" section below.)

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 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

• 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