Answer to "Blackballs" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word BANS , but the solution may also be SHUNS which is one of the most recent solution (2018 in New York Times).

Blackballs crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
BANS	70 %	4
SHUNS	30 %	5

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Blackballs

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• veto
• ostracize
• shun
• banish
• cast out
• negative
• ban
• barring
• blacks
• blackies
• blackbutt
• balls

Crossword Answer definitions

BANS noun

1. Prohibition.
2. A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms.
3. The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable to be summoned; originally, the same as arrière-ban: in the 16th c., French usage created a distinction between ban and arrière-ban, for which see the latter word.
4. A curse or anathema.
5. A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.

BANS verb

1. To summon; to call out.
2. To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
3. To curse; to execrate.
4. To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
5. To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.

BANS noun

1. A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.

BANS noun

1. A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result BANS

• Outlaws
• Forbids
• Injunctions
• Disallows
• Blackballs
• Blacks out
• Kicks off a message board, say
• Proscribes
• See 48-Down
• Prohibitions

More clues leading to the result SHUNS

• Ignores
• Avoids
• Eschews
• Avoids like the plague
• Takes pains to avoid
• Gives the cold shoulder to
• Boycotts
• Cold-shoulders
• Abstains from
• Ostracizes