Definition of balls
balls 
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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