balls
Very. Intensifier.
Adverb
- Very. Intensifier.
- It is balls cold out there.
Noun colloquial, plural
- Masculinity, particularly strength, courage, and force of will; chutzpah; brazenness.
- Douglas: You've got spunk. And balls. And I like that in a woman. - 2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6
- 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.
Synonyms: audacity balls bield boldhead boldness bravehood braveness bravery courage courageousness daring fearlessness grit guts heart intrepidity intrepidness mood nerve ovaries pecker pluck spunk steel
- Synonym of bollocks, nonsense.
- That's a load of balls.
- A balls-up; a botched job.
- Don't make a balls of it!
Derived
amazeballs ballsy barse Billy Big Balls blue balls bust one's balls bust someone's balls Colemanballs cramp balls dogballs drag one's balls across grab life by the balls have someone by the balls nutballs
Noun form of, plural
- plural of ball
- Can you believe he can juggle six balls at once?
- W. S. Gilbert, HMS Pinafore When the balls whistle free o'er the bright blue sea / We stand to our guns all day.
- The testicles.
- After that shot, his balls were really hurting!
- *groans* My b… b… ba… balls… balls…
Verb transitive, vulgar
- Speaking 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:
- 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:
- To engage in sexual intercourse.
Forms
Verb form of, indicative
- third-person singular simple present indicative of ball