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kick in the bollocks

kick in the bollocks is the alternative form of kick in the balls.

Meaning of kick in the balls

Noun

kick in the balls (plural kicks in the balls)

  1. (slang, vulgar) A great setback or disappointment.
    • This was a real kick in the balls to us because Afghanistan was going on, September 11 had just happened, and we were away from our families.2008, Thomas W. Young, The Speed of Heat: An Airlift Wing at War in Iraq and Afghanistan

Forms of kick in the bollocks

pluralkicks in the bollocks

Questions about kick in the bollocks

What is kick in the bollocks the alternative form of?
Kick in the bollocks is the alternative form of kick in the balls.

Words near kick in the bollocks in the dictionary

  1. kick drum
  2. kick drums
  3. kick flip
  4. kick in
  5. kick in the balls
  6. kick in the bollocks
  7. kick in the butt
  8. kick in the pants
  9. kick in the teeth
  10. kick into the long grass
  11. kick into touch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kick in the bollocks (page history and authors); kick in the balls (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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