Meanings
verbblack-book (third-person singular simple present black-books, present participle black-booking, simple past and past participle black-booked)
present singular third person black-books · participle present black-booking · participle past black-booked · past black-booked
- informaltransitiveTo censure (someone); to enter someone's name in a black book; to blacklist someone.
"Let me have a look at it," said the headmaster. "I see Mr. Gordon has black-booked you for 'gross impertinence.' What was it?"
1915, William Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
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