blacklist
verbEtymology From black + list.
1
To place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.
- You can blacklist known spammers with that button.
- As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2020:
- Synonyms
- blackball, send to Coventry, boycott
- Derived terms
- blacklistable, blacklistee, blacklister
- Related terms
- blocklist, hit list, shitlist, stop list, wanted list