# balls

Pronunciation: say "BAWLZ" /bɔːlz/

## Noun

1. Plural of ball. — plural of ball
   - Simple: Plural of ball. Use this form when you mean more than one ball.
   - _Several balls rolled off the table during the game._
   - _The juggler kept five balls in the air at once._
2. The testicles; the male reproductive glands. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: The two sex organs that hang between a man's legs.
   - _The puck caught him square in the balls during warm-up._
   - _The vet checked the dog's balls before scheduling the procedure._
3. Boldness and force of will treated as masculine courage; nerve; brazenness. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: Courage and a strong will to do bold things.
   - _It took serious balls to walk away from that contract on principle._
   - _Nobody questioned her balls after she pulled two people from the wreck._
4. Nonsense; foolish or untrue talk. *(dialectal, Commonwealth, Hawaii, Ireland, UK)*
   - Simple: Silly talk that makes no sense.
   - _Critics dismissed his grand theory as utter balls._
   - _Most of what the salesman told us about the deal turned out to be balls._
5. A botched job; a badly bungled piece of work. *(dialectal, Commonwealth, Hawaii, Ireland, UK)*
   - Simple: A job done very badly.
   - _He made a right balls of the wedding seating plan._
   - _The merger turned into an expensive balls that cost several jobs._

## Verb

6. To have sexual intercourse with someone. *(slang)*
   - Simple: To have sex with someone.
   - _He balls almost anyone he meets while out on tour._
   - _The couple balled all weekend at the cabin._
7. Third-person singular simple present indicative of ball. — third-person singular simple present indicative of ball
   - Simple: Third-person singular present of ball. Use it with he, she, it, or a singular noun.
   - _The machine balls the raw cotton into tight bundles._
   - _He balls up the failed draft and tosses it toward the bin._
9. To accomplish something by speaking or acting with bold bravado.
   - Simple: To get something done by acting very bold and confident.
   - _He balls his way through negotiations that would terrify most people._
   - _She simply balls the whole presentation, daring anyone to doubt her._

## Adverb

8. Used before an adjective as an intensifier meaning 'very' or 'extremely'. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Used before another word to mean 'very' or 'really'.
   - _The new phone is balls expensive for what it actually offers._
   - _It was balls hot in the kitchen all afternoon._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/balls (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).