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balls

/bɔːlz/

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Northumbria/baːlz/

balls noun: the testicles. Also the plural of ball.

Noun (1)

balls

  1. (colloquial, vulgar) The testicles.
    • After that shot, his balls were really hurting!

Noun (2)

balls pl (plural only)

  1. (colloquial, plural, plural-only, uncountable, vulgar) Masculinity, particularly strength, courage, and force of will; chutzpah; brazenness.
    • Near-synonyms: guts; see also Thesaurus:courage
    • He must have a lot of balls to talk to his boss that way.
  2. (Commonwealth, Hawaii, Ireland, UK, colloquial, plural) Synonym of bollocks, nonsense.
    • That's a load of balls.
    Synonyms:
    bollocks, nonsense
  3. (Commonwealth, Hawaii, Ireland, UK, plural, plural-only) A balls-up; a botched job.
    • Don't make a balls of it!

Verb

balls (third-person singular simple present ballses, present participle ballsing, simple past and past participle ballsed)

  1. (transitive, vulgar) Speaking or acting with bravado to achieve (something)
    • You're going up to the front door of that mansion and ballsing your way inside.1981, Tiny Boyles, Hank Nuwer, William Boyles, A Killing Trade, →ISBN, page 191
    • The poor fuck is broken-hearted, and he thinks he is ballsing it out really well, but he isn't.2009, Keith Brooke, The Accord, page 135
  2. (slang, vulgar) To engage in sexual intercourse.

Adverb

balls (not comparable)

  1. (slang) Very. Intensifier.
    • It is balls cold out there.

Proper noun capitalized: Balls

Balls

  1. A surname.

Also used as

balls is also the plural of ball.

balls is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of ball.

balls meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

balls in Hindi

गेंदें, गेंदियाँ

balls in Marathi

चेंडूंचे

balls in Urdu

گیندیں, گیندوں, بالز

balls in Bengali

slang for testicles
বীচি bici
More languagesFewer languages
balls in Telugu
బంతులు
balls in Malayalam
പന്തുകൾ, ബോളുകൾ, ബോൾസ്
balls in Kannada
ಚೆಂಡುಗಳು, ಚೆಂಡುಗಳನ್ನು, ಚೆಂಡುಗಳ
balls in Punjabi
ٹَٹّا ṭaṭṭā, ٹَٹّے ṭaṭṭe
balls in Gujarati
દડાઓ, દડા, બોલ્સ
balls in Odia
ବଲ୍ଗୁଡ଼ିକ
balls in Tagalog
betlog
balls in Indonesian
peler, biji salak, biji peler
balls in Persian
خایه xâye

Examples of balls in a sentence

  • He's the guy with the big balls in that group.
  • Balls is all that it takes to succeed.
  • Balls is all it takes to handle these people1960, Carlos Fuentes, Sam Hileman, Where the Air is Clear, page 80:
  • “Balls, gentlemen, balls is what you need to win at this game"2006, Leonardo Padura, Havana Blue, page 137:
  • He was ballsing his way through the conversation.2014, Claire Farrell, Make You: Stake You #2:

Synonyms of balls

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Forms of balls

third-person singular presentballses
present participleballsing
past participleballsed
pastballsed

Words formed from balls

Phrases with balls

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Words that rhyme with balls

Questions about balls

What does balls mean?
Balls means the testicles.
What is balls in Hindi?
Balls in Hindi is गेंदें, गेंदियाँ. See Balls meaning in Hindi.
How do you use balls in a sentence?
He's the guy with the big balls in that group.
What part of speech is balls?
Balls can be a noun, a verb, an adverb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce balls?
Balls is pronounced /bɔːlz/.

Words near balls in the dictionary

  1. ballroom dancing
  2. ballroomed
  3. ballrooming
  4. ballrooms
  5. ballroomy
  6. balls
  7. balls about
  8. balls and chains
  9. balls around
  10. balls deep
  11. balls down

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Adapted from Wiktionary: balls (page history and authors); Balls (page history and authors); balls (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); balls (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); balls (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); balls (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); balls (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); balls (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); balls (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); balls (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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