Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A list of persons or organizations that have incurred disapproval or suspicion or are to be boycotted or otherwise penalized.
- v. To place on or as if on a blacklist. See Synonyms at blackball.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A list of defaulters: specifically applied to printed lists of insolvents and bankrupts, published officially. Private lists, however, of a more searching character, are furnished by certain societies and private individuals to subscribers, with the view of affording protection against bad debts, frauds, etc.
- n. Any list of persons who are for any reason deemed objectionable by the makers or users of the list, as for political or social misconduct, for joining in or assisting a Strike, etc.
- n. Nautical, a list kept on board a man-of-war of delinquents to whom extra duty is assigned as a punishment.
- To place on a black-list.
Wiktionary
- n. A list or collection of people or entities to be shunned or banned.
- v. transitive To place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. a list of persons who are for some reason thought deserving of censure or punishment; -- esp. a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, made for the protection of tradesmen or employers. See Blacklist, v. t.
- v. To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection. See Black list, under black, a.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a list of people who are out of favor
- v. put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted
Etymologies
- From black + list. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“New Jersey has a law supported by compulsive gamblers that allows people to voluntarily sign themselves up for a blacklist — if someone on the blacklist is caught entering a casino, they immediately forfeit all their winnings and might have to pay an additional fine.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Behavioral Economics and Regulatory Policy:
“The blacklist is not empty and, as I said, it is supported by people with gambling problems (and their families).”
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Behavioral Economics and Regulatory Policy:
“Ricardo: New Jersey has a law supported by compulsive gamblers that allows people to voluntarily sign themselves up for a blacklist — if someone on the blacklist is caught entering a casino, they immediately forfeit all their winnings and might have to pay an additional fine. ...”
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Behavioral Economics and Regulatory Policy:
“Unfortunately, the blacklist is not made public and nobody is allowed to review the material on banned sites in order to verify that the ban is legitimate.”
“Someone on the IP list spotted that the blacklist is case sensitive.”
“The story of his father and the blacklist is sadly relevant in our current times.”
“The names on the blacklist is not public information, of course.”
“Many considered the use of the word blacklist, not commonly employed by conservation organizations, to be inflammatory.”
“No, seriously, even CES has jumped on the word blacklist bandwagon.”
“There could be several explanations: for instance, perhaps Google has received an updated domain blacklist from the Chinese government which does not list news. bbc.co.uk anymore, or perhaps they're scanning sites in China to check if they're censored, noticing that BBC is now accessible for Chinese visitors.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blacklist’.
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black phrases/words
Tolkien worked in the black section
of the dictionary at one point in his lifeblack-about, Black Act, black afraid, black Africa, black African, black amber, Black America, Black American, black and blae, black and blue, black angry, black ant and 578 more...
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goodkitten's list
there is going to be a lot of words...
flammivomous, pep, electrolyzation, research, constrain, why, refrigerator, invisible, windblown, curate's egg, echoism, drumble and 103 more...
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AGRI - animal health
Herod premium, beef consumption, time hung between..., checks on feed, optimal feeding p..., intensive farming, protein-rich feed..., concentrated feed, grass-fed beef ca..., grass silage, farm-animal feed, incorporation pre... and 156 more...
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The Blacklist
Stop SOPA.
blackout, redact, bowdlerize, censor, remove, conceal, bleach, bleep, blue-pencil, control, edit, excise and 24 more...
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disinformation
words meaning bad or not real data
foo, gobbledygook, spin, blacklist, corrupt, fraudulent, debauched, nefarious, untrustworthy, spam, deranged, mental and 22 more...
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Malcolm-Hex
Words where 'black' has a negative connotation.
The awareness of this has been more publically discussed since the 60's, however with the 2008 presidental race, I am curious if any of ...black sheep, blacklist, blackmail, blackball, black hat, black mark, black day, black magic, black market, blackhole, black monday, black comedy and 65 more...
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franky's Words
formitastic, human resources, cocktail, gravatar, tequila, twitter, moloko, gmail, beeb, mp3, cover art, thumbnail and 184 more...
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Black or White
black and white, snow-white, coal-black, blacksmith, whitesmith, blackball, white-box testing, Blackberry, white pages, black book, white paper, blacklist and 107 more...
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No Comeuppance!
comeuppance, ersatz, mensuration, felicitous, puissant, coccyx, groin vault, jactitation, titivate, crapulous, bibulous, lucubration and 116 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1695 more...
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Colour my Wordie!
Words and short phrases with colour names in them
blackguard, black box, black market, blue moon, blue-collar worker, true-blue, blue-blooded, pink slip, tickled pink, pink elephant, white elephant, white gold and 81 more...
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dynamite's Words
avant-garde, secret, shutters, brassiere, devanagari, lotus, composition, film, vanguard, ultra, brocade, voile and 41 more...
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