blue-ball

present singular third person blue-balls · participle present blue-balling · participle past blue-balled · past blue-balled · alternative blueball

1. slangtransitivevulgarTo leave (a person, usually a man) sexually frustrated by denying them an orgasm or abruptly ending sexual contact.

   “Stop blue-balling the guy and give in already.”

   2009, Kate Brian, Paradise Lost, Simon & Schuster UK, →ISBN, unnumbered page

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   I'm not even upset; I'm just tired of being blue-balled and tired of being rejected. It's just sad to see that I have to argue about having sex with my wife.

   2010, Doctor Lover, Dr. Lover, Mr. Lies: Cheating 101, E. C. Publishing (2010), unnumbered page

   I thought it would be a good way to go out—to blue-ball him into submission and then leave, the way all of the cool girls did in the movies.

   2012, Zoe Fishman, Saving Ruth, William Morrow, →ISBN, unnumbered page

2. broadlyidiomatictransitiveTo lead someone on or tease them with the promise of something desirable without actually delivering it, causing them to feel frustrated and unsatisfied.

   Stop blue-balling me and tell me what happened!

   Synonyms: tease, lead on, tantalize