Meanings
alternative yarbles
- figurativelymildlypluralplural onlyrareslanguncountablevulgarCourage, fortitude, or machismo.
The police, only barely adept at directing automated traffic, need an action hero to contain Snipes. But the only one around with yarblockos of sufficient mettle—Sly, of course, as former tough-guy cop Sgt. John Spartan—has himself been on ice for the last 25 or 30 years.
1993 December, Sheli Teitelbaum, “Stallone Demolition Man”, in Cinefantastique, volume 24, number 5, Forest Park, Illinois: Algol Press, →ISSN, page 16Synonyms: balls, bollocks, cojones, guts, nerve, chutzpah, audacity, balls
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Russianяблоко“apple”
- Englishyarblockos
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.
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