ball

Related to ball: Ball games

ball

1. noun A very enjoyable time. The kids really had a ball at the birthday party—they won't stop talking about it! You should really come to the fair with us. It'll be a ball!
2. noun, vulgar slang A testicle. She kicked the man right in the balls when he tried to grope her in the bar. I heard Tom lost his left ball to cancer last month.
3. verb, vulgar slang To have sex (with someone). I heard they were balling in the back seat of his pickup truck. You're still dating Jenny, right? You ball her yet?

balls

1. vulgar slang The testicles. Yeah, he's not feeling so great after taking that kick to the balls!
2. rude slang Gumption; nerve. You've got a lot of balls asking me about my love life in front of everyone like that.
3. rude slang An exclamation of frustration or disappointment. Balls, I left the tickets at home!
See also: ball
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

ball

1. n. a wild time at a party; a good time. We really had a ball. See ya!
2. n. a testicle. (see also balls.) The teacher preferred “testicles” to “balls,” if they had to be mentioned at all.
3. in. to enjoy oneself. (Ambiguous with the next sense.) The whole crowd was balling and having a fine time.
4. in. to depart; to leave. It’s late. Let’s ball.
5. tv. & in. to copulate [with] someone. (Usually objectionable.) Isn’t there anything more to you than balling?
6. in. to play a ball game. (Probably a deliberate pun on sense 5) Bob’s out balling with the guys.

balls

1. n. the testicles. (Usually objectionable.) He got hit in the balls in the football game.
2. exclam. of disbelief. (Usually an exclamation: Balls! Usually objectionable.) Out of gas! Balls! I just filled it up!
3. n. courage; bravado. (Usually refers to a male, but occasionally refers to female. Usually objectionable.) He doesn’t have enough balls to do that!
See also: ball
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (in) up to (one's) eye(ball)s
  • (one) catch no ball
  • a (whole) new ballgame
  • a ball and chain
  • a ball of fire
  • a crystal ball
  • a different ball of wax
  • a different/new ball game
  • a ground ball with eyes
  • a kick in the balls
  • a totally different ballgame
  • a whole new ball game
  • a whole other ball of wax
  • advance the ball
  • African golf ball
  • air ball
  • airball
  • all balled up
  • amazeballs
  • bad-ball hitter
  • bald as a coot/billiard ball
  • ball
  • ball and chain
  • ball hog
  • ball of fire
  • ball off
  • ball out
  • ball someone/something up
  • ball the jack
  • ball up
  • ball-breaker
  • ball-buster
  • ball-busting
  • balled up
  • balled-up
  • balling the jack
  • balls
  • balls about
  • balls around
  • ball's in your court, the
  • balls of feet
  • balls of the/(one's) feet
  • balls on about (something)
  • balls to the wall
  • balls up
  • balls-out
  • base on balls
  • bawl (one's) eyes out
  • b-ball
  • be behind the eight ball
  • be no ball of fire
  • be on the ball
  • beanball
  • beat off
  • behind the eight ball
  • belle of the ball
  • belle of the ball, the
  • blue balls
  • bobble the ball
  • brass balls
  • break (one's) balls
  • break balls
  • break balls to do something
  • break one’s balls
  • break one’s balls to do something
  • break one's balls
  • break somebody's balls
  • break someone’s balls
  • break someone's balls
  • break your balls
  • bust (one's) balls
  • bust (one's) butt
  • bust (one's) hump
  • bust balls
  • call balls and strikes
  • carry the ball
  • coil up into (something)
  • cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
  • cornball
  • crystal ball
  • crystal ball, look into one's
  • curve ball
  • drop the ball
  • eight ball
  • end of the ball game
  • foul ball
  • furball
  • get (someone) by the balls
  • get the ball rolling
  • get/keep/set/start the ball rolling
  • go under the wrecking ball
  • goofball
  • gopher ball
  • great balls of fire
  • Great balls of fire!
  • hairball
  • have (one) by the balls
  • have a ball
  • have a lot on the ball
  • have a man by the balls
  • have on the ball
  • have someone by the balls
  • have something on the ball
  • have something/a lot on the ball
  • have the ball at (one's) feet
  • have the ball at your feet
  • have the ball in (one's) court
  • have the ball in court
  • head the ball
  • hit (something) out of the (ball)park
  • if there's grass on the field, play ball
  • if there's grass on the pitch, play ball
  • in the same ballpark
  • keep (an amount of) balls in the air
  • keep (one's) eye on the ball
  • keep balls in the air
  • keep eye on the ball
  • keep one's eye on the ball
  • keep the ball rolling
  • keep the ball rolling, to
  • keep your eye on the ball
  • kick (something) into the long grass
  • kick (something) into touch
  • knock (something) out of the (ball)park
  • new ball game
  • on the ball
  • on the ball, be
  • one’s ball and chain
  • palm (something)
  • pick up the ball and run with it
  • pitch (one) a curve (ball)
  • play ball
  • play ball with
  • play ball with (one)
  • play ball with someone
  • play ball with, to
  • put balls on
  • put balls on (something)
  • put balls on something
  • screwball
  • scuzzball
  • set the ball rolling
  • sleazeball
  • slime ball
  • slimeball
  • sludge ball
  • snowball into (something)
  • start the ball rolling
  • suck balls
  • suck donkey balls
  • take (one's) ball and go home
  • take (one's) eye off the ball
  • take a bawling out
  • take the ball and run (with it)
  • take the ball and run with it
  • take the ball before the bound
  • take your eye off the ball
  • That’s the way the ball bounces
  • that's how (the way) the ball bounces/cookie crumbles
  • that's how the ball bounces
  • that's the way the ball bounces
  • the ball is in (one's) court
  • the ball is in court
  • the ball is in someone’s court
  • the ball is in someone's court
  • the ball is in your court
  • the ball is in your/somebody's court
  • the belle of the ball
  • the end of the ball game
  • the old ball and chain
  • the whole ball of wax
  • throw (one) a curve (ball)
  • throw away
  • throw someone a curve
  • too many balls in the air
  • trip balls
  • v-ball
  • whole ball of wax
  • whole ball of wax, the
  • whole new ball game/ball of wax, a
References in classic literature
it has broken; the ball is driven out on the School- house side, and a rush of the School carries it past the School- house players-up.
The ball has just fallen again where the two sides are thickest, and they close rapidly around it in a scrummage.
Tom Browns Schooldays
"But suddenly she made up her mind that her dress wasn't smart enough for a ball, though we thought it so lovely; and so my aunt had to take her home."
The Age of Innocence
that ball!why did we wait for any thing?why not seize the pleasure at once?How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!You told us it would be so.Oh!
"If I can come again, we are still to have our ball. My father depends on it.
Emma
"Be so good as to collect and throw us back our balls," said the duke.
The gardener nodded and began to fling up the balls, which were picked up by La Ramee and the guard.
Twenty Years After
Thursday was the day of the ball; and on Wednesday morning Fanny, still unable to satisfy herself as to what she ought to wear, determined to seek the counsel of the more enlightened, and apply to Mrs.
But Miss Crawford persevered, and argued the case with so much affectionate earnestness through all the heads of William and the cross, and the ball, and herself, as to be finally successful.
Mansfield Park
And then Chance carried a little leather ball beneath the window where the old man stood; and as the child ran, laughing, to recover it, De Vac's eyes fell upon him, and his former plan for revenge melted as the fog before the noonday sun; and in its stead there opened to him the whole hideous plot of fearsome vengeance as clearly as it were writ upon the leaves of a great book that had been thrown wide before him.
The Outlaw of Torn
The ball came to an end at midnight, and early next morning the Prince again led the Mother Dragon's mare out into the meadow.
So in the evening he appeared at the ball in his golden cloak; but before the entertainment was over he slipped away, and went straight to the stables, where he mounted his foal and rode out into the meadow to wait for the Flower Queen's daughter.
Yellow Fairy Book
He was forty-five then and already he had begun the practice of filling his pock- ets with the scraps of paper that became hard balls and were thrown away.
Winesberg Ohio
"Yes, sir, she's wonderfully improved; she's not the same creature that she was; it's `the Birtwick balls', sir," said John, laughing.
Black Beauty
The meat is made into balls about the size of billiard balls, and being well seasoned and spiced might be taken for turtle-balls or veal balls.
Moby Dick I LXVII