Pronunciation
- IPA: /bɔːlz/
- plural form 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.
- When the balls whistle free o'er the bright blue sea
- (vulgar, slang) The testicles.
- After that shot his balls were really hurting!
- (uncountable, vulgar, slang) Bravery, courage, chutzpah, or brazenness.
- 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.
- (uncountable, British, vulgar, slang) Rubbish, nonsense.
- That's a load of balls.
- (UK, Ireland, vulgar) A balls-up; a botched job.
- Don't make a balls of it!
- French: couilles, burnes, roustons
- German: Eier, Klöten
- Italian: balle, palle, coglioni, testicoli
- Portuguese: saco, bolas, colhões
- Russian: яйцо
- Spanish: huevos, pelotas, cojones, bolas
balls (ballses, present participle ballsing; past and past participle ballsed)
- (transitive) Speaking or acting with bravado to achieve (something)
- third-person singular form of ball
balls (not comparable)
- (slang) Very. Intensifier.
- It is balls cold out there.
- French: putain de
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