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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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balls out
adjective
- extreme.
That was one balls-out street race!
by Brad W., Portland, OR, USA, Feb 03 2003.
adverb
- with reckless abandon and extreme courage; HEAD-LONG; WITH A FULL HEAD 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.
by Jon L., Naples, FL, USA, May 22 1999.
notes
- also balls to the wall.
by Alan H., New York, NY, USA, 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".
by tg, Georgia, USA, Feb 29 2008.
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