go balls up

verb

to fail

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Meanings

verbgo balls up (third-person singular simple present goes balls up, present participle going balls up, simple past went balls up, past participle gone balls up)

present singular third person goes balls up · participle present going balls up · past went balls up · participle past gone balls up

  1. intransitivevulgarto fail

    The Mayor was desperate to find some kind of happy face to put on the situation should it go balls up.

    2004, Mike Mignola, Hellboy: Odd Jobs
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Chicago

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