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balls

Speech parts

1. balls - Noun

2. balls - Verb

3. balls - Adverb

Meaning

plural of ball
Can you believe he can juggle six balls at once?

(vulgar, colloquial) The testicles.
After that shot, his balls were really hurting!

(uncountable, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, vulgar, colloquial) Synonym of bollocks, nonsense.
That's a load of balls.

(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, vulgar) A balls-up; a botched job.
Don't make a balls of it!

(vulgar, transitive) Speaking or acting with bravado to achieve (something)

(vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual intercourse.

balls

third-person singular simple present indicative of ball

balls (not comparable)

(slang) Very. Intensifier.
It is balls cold out there.

(uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Masculinity, particularly strength, courage, and force of will; chutzpah; brazenness.

Synonyms: see Thesaurus:courage
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.
Balls is all that it takes to succeed.

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No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us. Bon Scott

I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people (Romeo and Juliet) took a chance and they did it. We don't have the balls that Romeo did. Leonardo DiCaprio

Agnostics are just atheists without balls. Stephen Colbert

A bad dancer always has trouble with his balls. Russian Proverb

Beetles that roll balls out of human faeces demand to be hidden away from the rich man, because there is nothing he wouldn't buy. Nigerian Proverb

Money from poor men and balls from dogs, impossible to hide. Corsican Proverb

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