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stick out like dog's balls

stick out like dog's balls verb: be very noticeably different, especially in a negative way; to be particularly obtrusive, conspicuous, blatant, or prominent; to attract undue attention or notice.

Verb

stick out like dog's balls (third-person singular simple present sticks out like dog's balls, present participle sticking out like dog's balls, simple past and past participle stuck out like dog's balls)

  1. (simile) Be very noticeably different, especially in a negative way; to be particularly obtrusive, conspicuous, blatant, or prominent; to attract undue attention or notice.
    • We had stopped in a newly ploughed mealie (maize) field, out in the open, sticking out like dog's balls.2014, Andrew Balaam, Bush War Operator, page 52
    • The moment of my life that sticks out like dog's balls are the times when my family was being split up and placed in institutions.2017, Jacqueline Z. Wilson, Sarah Hodgkinson, Justin Piché, The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Tourism, page 333

Synonyms of stick out like dog's balls

Forms of stick out like dog's balls

third-person singular presentsticks out like dog's balls
present participlesticking out like dog's balls
past participlestuck out like dog's balls
paststuck out like dog's balls

Origin of stick out like dog's balls

Referring to the obviousness of a domestic dog's testicles.

Questions about stick out like dog's balls

What does stick out like dog's balls mean?
Stick out like dog's balls means be very noticeably different, especially in a negative way; to be particularly obtrusive, conspicuous, blatant, or prominent; to attract undue attention or notice.
What part of speech is stick out like dog's balls?
Stick out like dog's balls is a verb.
What is the past tense of stick out like dog's balls?
The past tense of stick out like dog's balls is stuck out like dog's balls.

Words near stick out like dog's balls in the dictionary

  1. stick one's oar in
  2. stick one's tongue out
  3. stick out
  4. stick out a mile
  5. stick out like a sore thumb
  6. stick out like dog's balls
  7. stick out one's tongue
  8. stick phone
  9. stick phones
  10. stick plaster
  11. stick plasters

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