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balls on

balls on verb: to blather.

Verb

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

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, intransitive, slang, vulgar) To blather.
    • “Can you tell me why it is,” said Ian in an aggressive way, “every time we go into a fucking pub you go ballsing on about bleeding Lance Platt. Can you tell me that?”2010, Ruth Rendell, Portobello: A Novel, →ISBN, page 250
    • Here was Oswald, trying to make the business a bit of money, to go out and find a few pictures to sell and a few clients to sell them to; and here was this youth ballsing on about Chatsworth and his weekends with Lady Lindisfarne.2013, Philip Hook, The Stonebreakers, →ISBN

Forms of balls on

third-person singular presentballses on
present participleballsing on
past participleballsed on
pastballsed on

Questions about balls on

What does balls on mean?
Balls on means to blather.
What part of speech is balls on?
Balls on is a verb.
What is the past tense of balls on?
The past tense of balls on is ballsed on.

Words near balls on in the dictionary

  1. balls of fluff
  2. balls of malt
  3. balls of steel
  4. balls of the thumb
  5. balls off
  6. balls on
  7. balls out
  8. balls to the wall
  9. balls to the walls
  10. balls up
  11. balls-deep

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