balls
See also: Balls
English
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /bɔːlz/
Audio (UK): (file) - (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /bɑlz/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (US, Texas): (file) Audio (US, Connecticut): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːlz
Noun
editballs
- plural of ball
- Can you believe he can juggle six balls at once?
- (Can we date this quote?) W. S. Gilbert, HMS Pinafore
- When the balls whistle free o'er the bright blue sea / We stand to our guns all day.
- (vulgar, colloquial) The testicles.
- After that shot, his balls were really hurting!
Noun
editballs pl (plural only)
- (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.
- 2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6:
- (uncountable, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, Hawaii, vulgar, colloquial) Synonym of bollocks, nonsense.
- That's a load of balls.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, Hawaii, vulgar) A balls-up; a botched job.
- Don't make a balls of it!
Derived terms
editTranslations
editfollow the translations in the entry "ball" — see ball
slang for testicles
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slang for masculinity, inclusive of strength, courage, and force of will
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Verb
editballs (third-person singular simple present ballses, present participle ballsing, simple past and past participle ballsed)
- (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.
- (vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual intercourse.
Verb
editballs
- third-person singular simple present indicative of ball
Derived terms
editAdverb
editballs (not comparable)
Translations
editintensifier: very
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