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balls about

balls about verb: to engage in a lot of activity with many unwanted or unnecessary details.

Verb

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

  1. (UK, slang, vulgar) To engage in a lot of activity with many unwanted or unnecessary details.
    • This is just comfortable. I don't want no ballsing about with rows and noise in flats.1957, Reports of the Institute of Community Studies - Volume 2
    • All that ballsing about for nothing.1977, J. M. Henegan, Pulse, page 80
  2. (UK, slang, vulgar) To bullshit; to speak or act as a joke or with no real point.
    • 'You're on the front page of the Irish News.' 'Are you ballsing about?'2003, Sam Millar, On the Brinks, →ISBN, page 271

Forms of balls about

third-person singular presentballses about
present participleballsing about
past participleballsed about
pastballsed about
alternative formballs around

Questions about balls about

What does balls about mean?
Balls about means to engage in a lot of activity with many unwanted or unnecessary details.
What part of speech is balls about?
Balls about is a verb.
What is the past tense of balls about?
The past tense of balls about is ballsed about.

Words near balls about in the dictionary

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

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