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Definition of balls

balls    Featured Word

adjective

  • out of luck; having failed or lost.
    Speaker A: Did you get the job?

    Speaker B: No, I'm balls.
    We're balls. Balls!!

    by james s., NJ, USA, Jun 08 1999.

adverb

  • very; extremely. Also balls-ass.
    It is balls cold out here.
    I'm balls tired.

    by James O, Bluefield, WV, USA, Apr 29 1999.

interjection

  • exclamation of disappointment.
    Oh balls!

    by John V., Feb 04 1999.

noun

  • testicles.
    The baseball hit him right in the balls.

    by Mia X, Nov 05 1999.

  • bravado, courage; GUTS. In this sense, "balls" still means "testicles," but "having balls" implies bravado. Having large "balls" or many "balls" implies even more bravado. (The "having testicles" = "bravado" relationship exists in other languages, e.g. "tener cojones" in Spanish.)
    You've got balls to do something like that!
    That dude must have enormous balls!
    You've got a lot of balls showing your face in here.

    by Avalon D., Chicago, IL, USA, Sep 18 2002.

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