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balls
noun- the testicles UK, 1325
From the shape. - “I said I lost my balls! Can’t you hear me? I’m wounded in the groin!” — Joseph Heller, Catch-22, p. 289, 1961
- I worked my way up to his balls, which I sucked one at a time. — Xaviera Hollander, The Happy Hooker, p. 181, 1972
- She held it up and kissed under it, running her tongue over my testicles and sucking my balls. — Harold Robbins, Sin City, p. 64, 2002
- I joined the university karate class (not because I wanted a code of honour but so I could kick anyone in the balls who attacked me when I walked home late at night). — The Guardian, 20 January 2004
- courage, daring UK, 1893
- He’s a smart pitcher too, knows what he’s doing out there, and as Jim Owens says, “He has the balls of a burglar.” — Jim Bouton, Ball Four, p. 324, 1970
- You didn’t hit it, but it was a big balls bet. — Hard Eight, 1996
- If you think something’s going on, have the balls to ask someone instead of just sneaking around. — Robert Crais, L.A. Requiem, p. 124, 1999
- [Y]ou need one other vital ingredient for your criminal idea–balls, big balls. And that makes all the difference. — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 33, 2001
- strength, substance UK
- I could bring a bit of balls to programmes like that[.] — Gary Glitter, Ask, p. 35, 7 March 1981
- nonsense UK, 1857
- I don’t know if that’s a spiritual thing beyond my ken – I might be talking balls – but I do think sometimes: “I shouldn’t be here now”. — The Observer, 29 September 2002
▶ all balls
nonsense UK, 1937
An elaboration of BALLSas balls
used as an intensifier US, 1988- That test was hard as balls. — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 1
▶ balls in a vice
at an extreme disadvantage, overpowered US- I’m up front with ya, Tilley. I’ve got my balls in a vice. — Tin Men, 1987
▶ balls like a Scoutmaster
great courage or sexual prowess NEW ZEALAND
Based on the image of a Boy Scout leader as a paedophile.- — Harry Orsman, A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang, p. 5, 1999
▶ by the twenty-four swinging balls of the twelve apostles!
used as a register of anger and despair US- “By the twenty-four swinging balls of the twelve apostles!” is the most colourful expression I ever heard uttered during my years on the road. — Howard Bone, Side Show, p. 89, 2001
▶ don’t get your balls in a knot
do not become agitated AUSTRALIA- “We’ve been in a funny place called civilisation. You know how to spell that, cowgirl?” “Don’t get your balls in a knot.” — Robert English, Toxic Kisses, p. 81, 1979
▶ get your balls in an uproar
to become unduly excited CANADA, 1961
Of military origin.▶ have your balls for a necktie
to punish someone severely UK, 1973
Generally in a future tense; an unpleasant if imaginative simile that is no more no comprehensive than the actual fate that is threatened.▶ lay your balls on the chopping-block
to take responsibility (for an action or opinion) and thereby risk humiliation or rejection UK- [T]hen we really had to lay our balls on the chopping-block. — Frank Skinner, Frank Skinner, p. 166, 2001
▶ make a balls of
to spoil something, to make a mess of something UK, 1889 From BALLS[Y]ou’re very aware that the more England are in pole position the more they’re likely to make a balls of it. — The Observer, 28 January 2001▶ to have someone by the balls
to exert complete control over someone; to have complete power over someone US, 1918- [E]ven though he’s got me by the balls out here, Dan knows that in a courtroom, he loses this case. — A Few Good Men, 1992
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