noun, verb
noun (!!!, slang)
1 [U] (BrE) nonsense:
That's a load of balls!
2 [pl.] courage:
She's got balls, I'll say that for her. * It took a lot of balls to do that.
3 (Balls!) (BrE) exclamation used as a swear word when you are are disagreeing with sth, or when you are angry about sth
HELPNOTE Less offensive ways to express this are 'Nonsense!', or 'Come off it!'
Part of speech: verb
PHRASALVERBS
balls sth<->up (BrE, !!!, slang) to spoil sth; to do sth very badly
relatednounBALLS-UP
HELPNOTE A more polite, informal way of saying this is foul sth up, cock sth up (slang), or bungle sth.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This entry for balls is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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In this entry, balls is tagged as verb.
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