balled
balled is the simple past and past participle of ball.
Adjective
balled (not comparable)
- Formed into a ball.
- balled fists
- Having a specified kind or number of balls.
- a hairy-balled man
- a big-balled guy
Meaning of ball
Verb
ball (third-person singular simple present balls, present participle balling, simple past and past participle balled)
- To form or wind into a ball.
- to ball cotton
- To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
- To have sexual intercourse (with).
- Max says it works both ways. “I mean if she comes in and tells me she wants to ball Don, maybe, I say ‘O.K., baby, it's your trip.’”1968, Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- Synonyms:
- Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, go to bed with, have
- To gather balls which cling to the feet or skis, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
- the horse balls
- To be hip or cool.
- To reject from a fraternity or sorority. (Ellipsis of blackball).
- This highlights the issue of toxic masculinity in fraternities: a pledge only becomes a man, or a brother, by enduring as much abuse as he can and by proving his competence with girls. If he cannot, he is not only "balled" but seen as a "faggot" (this is a term directly from the work).2018 July 12, “'I Thought Frats Were Like Their Movies, and They Totally Are': A Review of 'Alpha Class'”, in College Media Network
Words formed from balled
Phrases with balled
Questions about balled
- What does balled mean?
- Balled means formed into a ball.
- What is balled the simple past and past participle of?
- Balled is the simple past and past participle of ball.
- What part of speech is balled?
- Balled is an adjective.
Words near balled in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: balled (page history and authors); ball (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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