blacklist
Plural: blacklists
Noun
- a list of people who are out of favor
- A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked.
Verb
- put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted
- "many books were blacklisted by the Nazis"
- To place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.
Examples
- The software included a lengthy blacklist of disreputable websites to block.
- You can blacklist known spammers with that button.
Origin / Etymology
From black + list.
Synonyms
black book, shitlist, blackball, blocklist, boycott, denylist, hotlist, ignore, send to Coventry
Scrabble Score: 17
blacklist: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordblacklist: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
blacklist: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary