balls

noun

1. (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.”

2. (colloquial, vulgar)The testicles.

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

   “*groans* My b… b… ba… balls… balls…”

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

   “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”

4. (Commonwealth, Hawaii, Ireland, UK, colloquial, plural, plural-only, uncountable, vulgar)Synonym of bollocks, nonsense.

   “That's a load of balls.”

5. (Commonwealth, Hawaii, Ireland, UK, plural, plural-only, vulgar)A balls-up; a botched job.

   “Don't make a balls of it!”

verb

1. (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.”

   “The poor fuck is broken-hearted, and he thinks he is ballsing it out really well, but he isn't.”

   “He was ballsing his way through the conversation. For the first time, I caught a glimpse of something vulnerable behind the usual brashness.”

2. (slang, vulgar)To engage in sexual intercourse.
3. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of ball

adv

1. (not-comparable, slang)Very. Intensifier.

   “It is balls cold out there.”

name

1. A surname.