blackball vs reject

blackball

noun
  • A rejection; a vote against admitting someone. 

  • A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote. 

  • A kind of large black sweet; a niggerball. 

  • A game, a standardized version of the English version of eight-ball. 

  • A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work. 

verb
  • To ostracize. 

  • To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization. 

reject

noun
  • Something that is rejected. 

  • A rejected takeoff. 

  • A rejected defective product in a production line. 

  • An unpopular person. 

verb
  • To refuse a romantic advance. 

  • To refuse to accept. 

  • To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court. 

How often have the words blackball and reject occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )