Blackball
# Blackball

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

## Film

* Blackball (film), a 2003 film starring Paul Kaye
* Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, a 2004 film starring Rob Corddry

## 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, 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.
