Meaning of balls | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Masculinity, particularly strength, courage, and force of will; chutzpah; brazenness.
   colloquial, plural, plural-only, uncountable, vulgar
2. A surname.
3. plural of ball
4. The testicles.
   colloquial, vulgar
5. The testicles
6. Synonym of bollocks, nonsense.
   Commonwealth, Hawaii, Ireland, UK, colloquial, plural, plural-only, uncountable, vulgar
7. Masculinity, particularly strength, courage, and force of will; chutzpah; brazenness
8. A balls-up; a botched job.
   Commonwealth, Hawaii, Ireland, UK, plural, plural-only, vulgar
9. Synonym of bollocks, nonsense
10. A balls-up; a botched job

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“After that shot, his balls were really hurting!”

“Douglas: You've got spunk. And balls. And I like that in a woman.”

“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.”

“Balls is all it takes to handle these people”

““Balls, gentlemen, balls is what you need to win at this game"”

“That's a load of balls.”

“Don't make a balls of it!”

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