stones

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stones

1. slang Testicles. I kicked the mugger in the stones and grabbed my wallet back off him.
2. slang By extension, confidence, courage, bravado, etc. It was a real kick in the stones getting turned down for the third time. You've got some stones coming in here and asking for a raise, I'll give you that. You've got some real stones if you think you can take on someone as wealthy and powerful as him!
See also: stone
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

stones

1. n. the testicles. (see also rocks.) He got hit in the stones.
2. mod. courage; bravado. (The same as balls sense 3) Come on, Willy, show some stones!
See also: stone
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • nads
  • nuts
  • nutz
  • the nuts
  • nards
  • nuggets
  • the/(one's) junk
  • cojones
  • break (one's) stones
  • bust (one's) stones
References in classic literature
Yet when they saw it was a man that rushed upon them, they were seized with sudden fear and fled this way and that, leaping by great bounds from the place of rock, which is the knees of the stone Witch, so that presently I stood alone in front of the cave.
As the contestants came opposite where Bashti and Aora his prime minister stood, they redoubled their efforts, Wiwau goading enthusiastically, Tiha jumping with every thrust to the imminent danger of dropping the stones. At their heels trooped the children of the village and all the village dogs, whooping and yelping with excitement.
They struck at each other, clinched, and rolled over on the cobble stones.
For, let us insist upon this point, masonry must not be thought to be powerful only in erecting the temple and in expressing the myth and sacerdotal symbolism; in inscribing in hieroglyphs upon its pages of stone the mysterious tables of the law.
The stone did not give the fraction of the breadth of a hair.
Then holding it up he said, "There, that's the stone your horse had picked up.
For which the astronomers (who have written large systems concerning the stone) assign the following reason: that the magnetic virtue does not extend beyond the distance of four miles, and that the mineral, which acts upon the stone in the bowels of the earth, and in the sea about six leagues distant from the shore, is not diffused through the whole globe, but terminated with the limits of the king's dominions; and it was easy, from the great advantage of such a superior situation, for a prince to bring under his obedience whatever country lay within the attraction of that magnet.
The man with the feathers went up to the stone, stooped, slipped his hands under the face lying upon the ground, stiffened his Herculean muscles, and without a strain, with a slow motion, like that of a machine, he lifted the end of the rock a foot from the ground.
Our business is to construct a cannon measuring nine feet in its interior diameter, six feet thick, and with a stone revetment of nineteen and a half feet in thickness.
There are in every part of the valley a great many of these massive stone foundations which have no houses upon them.
If I speak truth, the goat-skin with the stones will lie upon the floor; and if there is truth as to whether it is death to enter here, that ye will learn afterwards.
We went to the quarry from whence the stones of Baalbec were taken.
This remonstrance being received with yells and flying stones, according to a custom of late years comfortably established among the police regulations of our English communities, where Christians are stoned on all sides, as if the days of Saint Stephen were revived, Durdles remarks of the young savages, with some point, that 'they haven't got an object,' and leads the way down the lane.
What winds conveyed this hurry to the grizzled mender of roads, already at work on the hill-top beyond the village, with his day's dinner (not much to carry) lying in a bundle that it was worth no crow's while to peck at, on a heap of stones? Had the birds, carrying some grains of it to a distance, dropped one over him as they sow chance seeds?
Mutely marching over the scornful clinking of pebbles, trampling the stone that let it slip: thus did my foot force its way upwards.