Plural of blackball; the black balls used in voting, or instances of rejection.
The plural form of 'blackball,' from the physical black balls cast in voting systems. Both the object and the action.
In old club archives, you can still see records of 'blackballs cast'—each one representing someone's life changed, a career ended, or an outsider kept out. It's a very literal way of documenting human rejection.
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