# balls
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔːlz/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* (cot–caught merger) IPA: /bɑlz/
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* Rhymes: -ɔːlz
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### Noun

balls
* plural of ball
    Can you believe he can juggle six balls at once?
** (Can we date this quote?) W. S. Gilbert, HMS Pinafore
    When the balls whistle free o'er the bright blue sea / We stand to our guns all day.
* (vulgar, colloquial) The testicles.
    After that shot, his balls were really hurting!

### Noun

balls pl (plural only)
* (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Masculinity, particularly strength, courage, and force of will; chutzpah; brazenness.
** 2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6:
    Douglas: You've got spunk. And balls. And I like that in a woman.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:courage
    He must have a lot of balls to talk to his boss that way.
    He's the guy with the big balls in that group.
    Balls is all that it takes to succeed.
** 1960, Carlos Fuentes, Sam Hileman, Where the Air is Clear‎, page 80:Balls is all it takes to handle these people
** 2006, Leonardo Padura, Havana Blue‎, page 137:“Balls, gentlemen, balls is what you need to win at this game"
* (uncountable, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, Hawaii, vulgar, colloquial) Synonym of bollocks, nonsense.
    That's a load of balls.
* (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, Hawaii, vulgar) A balls-up; a botched job.
    Don't make a balls of it!

#### Derived terms

* amazeballs
* ballsy
* barse
* blue balls
* bust one's balls
* bust someone's balls
* Colemanballs
* cramp balls (Daldinia concentrica)
* dogballs
* have someone by the balls
* nutballs

#### Translations
### Verb

balls (third-person singular simple present ballses, present participle ballsing, simple past and past participle ballsed)
* (vulgar, transitive) Speaking or acting with bravado to achieve (something)
** 1981, Tiny Boyles, Hank Nuwer, William Boyles, A Killing Trade, →ISBN, page 191:You're going up to the front door of that mansion and ballsing your way inside.
** 2009, Keith Brooke, The Accord, page 135:The poor fuck is broken-hearted, and he thinks he is ballsing it out really well, but he isn't.
** 2014, Claire Farrell, Make You: Stake You #2:He was ballsing his way through the conversation. For the first time, I caught a glimpse of something vulnerable behind the usual brashness.
* (vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual intercourse.

### Verb

balls
* third-person singular simple present indicative of ball

#### Derived terms

* balls about, balls around
* balls on
* balls up

### Adverb

balls (not comparable)
* (slang) Very. Intensifier.
    It is balls cold out there.

#### Translations
### Further reading

* ball on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* testicle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* courage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbaʎs]

### Noun

balls
* plural of ball