balls

1. pluralplural of ball

   Can you believe he can juggle six balls at once?

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   When the balls whistle free o'er the bright blue sea / We stand to our guns all day.

   1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, H.M.S. Pinafore; […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company, […], →OCLC

2. colloquialvulgarThe testicles.

   He accidentally kicked me in the balls the other day while we were playing soccer.

1. colloquialpluralplural onlyuncountablevulgarMasculinity, particularly strength, courage, and force of will; chutzpah; brazenness.

   Balls is all that it takes to succeed.

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   Near-synonyms: guts; see also 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 it takes to handle these people

   1960, Carlos Fuentes, Sam Hileman, Where the Air is Clear, page 80

   “Balls, gentlemen, balls is what you need to win at this game"

   2006, Leonardo Padura, Havana Blue, page 137

   Synonyms: stones, testicles, testes, acorns, agates, apples, apricots, bags

2. CommonwealthHawaiiIrelandUKcolloquialpluralplural onlyuncountablevulgarSynonym of bollocks, nonsense.

   That's a load of balls.

   Synonyms: bollocks, nonsense

3. CommonwealthHawaiiIrelandUKpluralplural onlyvulgarA balls-up; a botched job.

   Don't make a balls of it!

present singular third person ballses · participle present ballsing · participle past ballsed · past ballsed

1. transitivevulgarSpeaking or acting with bravado to achieve (something)

   You're going up to the front door of that mansion and ballsing your way inside.

   1981, Tiny Boyles, Hank Nuwer, William Boyles, A Killing Trade, →ISBN, page 191

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   The poor fuck is broken-hearted, and he thinks he is ballsing it out really well, but he isn't.

   2009, Keith Brooke, The Accord, page 135

   He was ballsing his way through the conversation. For the first time, I caught a glimpse of something vulnerable behind the usual brashness.

   2014, Claire Farrell, Make You: Stake You #2

2. slangvulgarTo engage in sexual intercourse.

1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of ball

1. not comparableslangVery. Intensifier.

   It is balls cold out there.

1. A surname.