balls

Meanings

Noun

• round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games
• a solid projectile that is shot by a musket
• an object with a spherical shape
• the people assembled at a lavish formal dance
• one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
  • "she kicked him in the balls and got away"
• a spherical object used as a plaything
• United States comedienne best known as the star of a popular television program (1911-1989)
• a compact mass
• a lavish dance requiring formal attire
• a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass
  • "he stood on the balls of his feet"
• the game of baseball
• a pitch that is not in the strike zone
  • "he threw nine straight balls before the manager yanked him"
• plural of ball
• The testicles.
• Masculinity, particularly strength, courage, and force of will; chutzpah; brazenness.
• Synonym of bollocks, nonsense.
• A balls-up; a botched job.

Verb

• form into a ball by winding or rolling
• Speaking or acting with bravado to achieve (something)
• To engage in sexual intercourse.
• third-person singular simple present indicative of ball

Adv

• Very. Intensifier.

Synonyms

audacity, ball, Ball, ballock, balls, bield, boldhead, boldness, bollock, bollocks, bravehood, braveness, bravery, chunk, clod, clump, courage, courageousness, daring, egg, fearlessness, formal, glob, globe, grit, guts, heart, intrepidity, intrepidness, Lucille Ball, lump, mood, musket ball, nerve, nonsense, nut, orb, orchis, ovaries, pecker, pluck, spunk, steel, testicle, testis, undauntedness, valour