Browsing page 1 of words meaning brave (10 words total)

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!

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  • See more words with the same meaning: hard, confusing, difficult, a problem.

  Last edited on Jun 08 1999. Submitted by james s. from NJ, USA on Jun 08 1999.

adverb

• very; extremely. Also "as balls", balls-ass.

  It is balls cold out here.

  I'm balls tired.

  • See more words with the same meaning: very, extremely, completely, in a grand way.

  Last edited on Mar 28 2011. Submitted by James O from Bluefield, WV, USA on Apr 29 1999.

interjection

• exclamation of disappointment.

  Oh balls!

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  Last edited on Feb 04 1999. Submitted by John V. on Feb 04 1999.

noun

• testicles. Also used in the singular as ball.

                                                                                                
  
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  Citation from "Anger", Wilfred (US TV), Season 1 Episode 8 (2011) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.

  Peter's balls were almost nonexistent.

  • See more words with the same meaning: testicles.

  Last edited on Apr 25 2013. Submitted by Mia X on 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.

                                                                                                                                                         
  
                                    
  
  Citation from "Bill And Gary's Excellent Adventure", Alphas (TV), Season 1 Episode 6 (2011) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.

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  Last edited on Feb 22 2013. Submitted by Avalon D. from Chicago, IL, USA on Sep 18 2002.

notes

• See ball; baller

  Last edited on Aug 12 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 12 2009.

adjective

• extreme.

  That was one balls-out street race!

  • See more words with the same meaning: wild, ridiculous, extreme.

  Last edited on Feb 03 2003. Submitted by Brad W. from Portland, OR, USA on Feb 03 2003.

adverb

• with reckless abandon and extreme courage; "head-long"; "with a head full of steam"; "giving it one's all".

  Those motorcyclists took that steep hill balls out!

  You just have to go balls out to win this game.

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  • See more words with the same meaning: wild, ridiculous, extreme.

  Last edited on Jun 04 2013. Submitted by Jon L. from Naples, FL, USA on May 22 1999.

notes

• also balls to the wall.

  Last edited on Jul 31 1998. Submitted by Alan H. from New York, NY, USA on Jul 31 1998.

• Possible etymology: The original phrase is actually hinted to in the expression "with a full head of steam". In the earliest days of steam engines, Watt style engines and their successors used a centrifugal governor to control speed. The faster the engine was to run the higher the weighted balls on the governor would rise until at full speed they were at their highest and farthest reach from the center: high or full speed was known as running "balls out".

  Last edited on Feb 29 2008. Submitted by tg from Georgia, USA on Feb 29 2008.

adjective

• brave. See balls.

  That was one ballsy move.

                                                      
  
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  Last edited on Oct 25 2011. Submitted by Avalon D. from Chicago, IL, USA on Sep 18 2002.

noun - plural

• testicles.

  He got kicked right in the cojones.

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  Last edited on Oct 15 2011. Submitted by David C. on Sep 19 2004.

• courage, from the "testicles = courage" metaphor.

  Never underestimate the size of my cojones.

                                                 
  
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  Last edited on Jun 04 2013. Submitted by Rachel P. from UK on Dec 04 2005.

verb

• to face a daunting task, as a brave cowboy would.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
  
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  Last edited on Apr 29 2011. Submitted by Mary K. from Lockport, IL, USA on Feb 25 2003.