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balls

See also: Balls

English Edit

Pronunciation Edit

  • IPA(key): /bɔːlz/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔːlz

Noun Edit

balls

  1. plural of ball
    Can you believe he can juggle six balls at once?
  2. (vulgar, colloquial) The testicles.
    After that shot, his balls were really hurting!

Noun Edit

balls pl (plural only)

  1. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Masculinity, particularly strength, courage, and force of will; chutzpah; brazenness.
    • 2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6:
      Douglas: You've got spunk. And balls. And I like that in a woman.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:courage
    He must have a lot of balls to talk to his boss that way.
    He's the guy with the big balls in that group.
    Balls is all that it takes to succeed.
    • 1960, Carlos Fuentes, Sam Hileman, Where the Air is Clear‎[1], page 80:
      Balls is all it takes to handle these people
    • 2006, Leonardo Padura, Havana Blue‎[2], page 137:
      “Balls, gentlemen, balls is what you need to win at this game"
  2. (uncountable, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, vulgar, colloquial) Synonym of bollocks, nonsense.
    That's a load of balls.
  3. (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, vulgar) A balls-up; a botched job.
    Don't make a balls of it!

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follow the translations in the entry "ball" — see ball

Verb Edit

balls (third-person singular simple present ballses, present participle ballsing, simple past and past participle ballsed)

  1. (vulgar, transitive) Speaking or acting with bravado to achieve (something)
    • 1981, Tiny Boyles, Hank Nuwer, William Boyles, A Killing Trade, →ISBN, page 191:
      You're going up to the front door of that mansion and ballsing your way inside.
    • 2009, Keith Brooke, The Accord, page 135:
      The poor fuck is broken-hearted, and he thinks he is ballsing it out really well, but he isn't.
    • 2014, Claire Farrell, Make You: Stake You #2:
      He was ballsing his way through the conversation. For the first time, I caught a glimpse of something vulnerable behind the usual brashness.
  2. (vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual intercourse.

Verb Edit

balls

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ball

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Adverb Edit

balls (not comparable)

  1. (slang) Very. Intensifier.
    It is balls cold out there.

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Noun Edit

balls

  1. plural of ball
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