ball-buster

ball-buster

1. Someone who deliberately gives others a hard time, is very demanding, or is insulting. Can be considered vulgar. John's boss, Mark, is quite the ball-buster. After completing the project ahead of time and under budget, Mark ordered John to work through the weekend to finish up other meaningless tasks.
2. A particularly challenging or strenuous task. Geez, that problem was a real ball-buster—I can't believe we finally came up with a solution.
3. A woman that men deem intimidating or threatening. Oh, the guys just think Nora's a ball-buster because she's not afraid of them.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

ball-buster

verb
See ball-breaker
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • ball-breaker
  • choad
  • chode
  • as if the sun shines out (one's) backside
  • bone
  • bones
  • pussy
  • pecker slap
  • poke
References in periodicals archive
"I think her words were 'I'm going to be a ball-buster'.
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I know he's got an untainted reputation as a ball-buster and a proper copper.
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The versatile Derbez plays the diva roles, delivering his tour de farce as a Latina mother, the driving force of the Daughters of the Inquisition and a real ball-buster, who is volubly grateful because her son is a vampire--not gay.
Latinologues
And just because he's married to a ball-buster like Victoria it doesn't give him carte blanche to mess around all over Madrid.
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Alex says his dad is "a ball-buster" who just can't enunciate as well as he used to.
In Runs in the Family
Stuffed into what is now their getaway car, Debe's colleagues--including a female ball-buster nicknamed "Cyborg" (Ingrid Chauvin)--are less than enthused about being involuntary accomplices.
The Wackos