Etymology

yarblockos

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Today it means: Testicles; bollocks. Full definition →

Russian яблоко
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  1. Russian · borrowed fromяблоко“apple”
  2. English todayyarblockos

From Russian яблоко (jabloko, “apple”); coined by Anthony Burgess in 1962, when he introduced it within the invented slang Nadsat found in his dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.