Blacklist

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈblæklɪst/

Origin

From black + list.

Full definition of blacklist

Noun

1. (legal) A list or collection of people or entities to be shunned or banned.The software included a lengthy blacklist of disreputable websites to block.

Antonyms

• greylist
• whitelist

Verb

1. (transitive) To place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.
• 2013-08-10, A new prescription, 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.
2. You can blacklist known spammers with that button.

Derived terms

• blacklister

Anagrams

• stickball