Meaning

4 senses
  1. (colloquial, vulgar)The testicles.

    After that shot, his balls were really hurting!

  2. (colloquial, plural, plural only, uncountable, vulgar)Masculinity, particularly strength, courage, and force of will; chutzpah; brazenness.

    Near-synonyms: guts; see also Thesaurus:courage

    He must have a lot of balls to talk to his boss that way.

    Eier, Klöten, Arsch in der Hose

    муде́mudé, я́йцаjájca

  3. (Commonwealth, Hawaii, Ireland, UK, colloquial, plural, plural only, uncountable, vulgar)Synonym of bollocks, nonsense.

    That's a load of balls.

  4. (Commonwealth, Hawaii, Ireland, UK, plural, plural only, vulgar)A balls-up; a botched job.

    Don't make a balls of it!

Examples

185 sentences
  1. All of the balls are yellow.

    Усі м'ячі жовті. — deniko

    ruВсе мячи жёлтые. — odexed

    deAlle Bälle sind gelb. — Manfredo

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  2. Balls are round.

    М'ячі круглі. — deniko

    ruМячи круглые. — sharptoothed

    deBälle sind rund. — MikeMolto

  3. Don't balls it up!

    Не обісрися! — deniko

  4. Three of the balls are yellow.

  5. Do you have any golf balls?

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
slang for testicles:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
slang for testicles:
slang for masculinity, inclusive of strength, courage, and force of will:

Forms

plural: ballses
Singularballs
Pluralballses

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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