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English

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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balls

  1. plural ofball
    Can you believe he can juggle sixballs at once?
  2. (vulgar, colloquial) Thetesticles.
    After that shot, hisballs were really hurting!

Noun

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balls pl (plural only)

  1. (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial)Masculinity,particularlystrength,courage, andforce of will;chutzpah;brazenness.
    • 2007 September 28, Graham Linehan,The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6:
      Douglas: You've gotspunk. Andballs. And I like that in a woman.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:courage
    He must have a lot ofballs to talk to his boss that way.
    He's the guy with the bigballs in that group.
    Balls is all that it takes to succeed.
    • 1960, Carlos Fuentes, Sam Hileman,Where the Air is Clear‎[1], page80:
      Balls is all it takes to handle these people
    • 2006, Leonardo Padura,Havana Blue‎[2], page137:
      “Balls, gentlemen,balls is what you need to win at this game"
  2. (uncountable, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, Hawaii, vulgar, colloquial)Synonym ofbollocks,nonsense.
    That's a load ofballs.
  3. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, Hawaii, vulgar) Aballs-up; abotched job.
    Don't make aballs of it!

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Translations

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follow the translations in the entry "ball"—seeball
slang for testicles
slang for masculinity, inclusive of strength, courage, and force of will

Verb

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balls (third-person singular simple presentballses,present participleballsing,simple past and past participleballsed)

  1. (vulgar, transitive) Speaking or acting withbravado to achieve (something)
    • 1981, Tiny Boyles, Hank Nuwer, William Boyles,A Killing Trade,→ISBN, page191:
      You're going up to the front door of that mansion andballsing your way inside.
    • 2009, Keith Brooke,The Accord, page135:
      The poor fuck is broken-hearted, and he thinks he isballsing it out really well, but he isn't.
    • 2014, Claire Farrell,Make You: Stake You #2:
      He wasballsing 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 insexual intercourse.

Verb

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balls

  1. third-personsingularsimplepresentindicative ofball

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Adverb

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balls (notcomparable)

  1. (slang)Very.Intensifier.
    It isballs cold out there.

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intensifier: very

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Noun

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balls

  1. plural ofball
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