balls about

present singular third person ballses about · participle present ballsing about · participle past ballsed about · past ballsed about · alternative balls around

1. UKslangvulgarTo engage in a lot of activity with many unwanted or unnecessary details.

   All that ballsing about for nothing.

   1977, J. M. Henegan, Pulse, page 80

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   This is just comfortable. I don't want no ballsing about with rows and noise in flats.

   1957, Reports of the Institute of Community Studies - Volume 2

   If we can render them [ICJP] ineffective now, then we leave the way clear for a direct approach without all the ballsing about.

   1990, Padraig O'Malley, Biting at the Grave, page 98

2. UKslangvulgarTo bullshit; to speak or act as a joke or with no real point.

   'You're on the front page of the Irish News.' 'Are you ballsing about?'

   2003, Sam Millar, On the Brinks, →ISBN, page 271