ball up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: balls up
form: balling up
form: balled up
form: balled up
Senses: examples: text: She balled up her paper in frustration.
glosses: To crush or form into a ball shape.
glosses: To crush or form into a ball shape.
To form melted metals into balls or lumps to roll them out of a furnace for further use.
examples: text: He balled up his fists, ready to fight.
glosses: To coil up into a ball.
examples: text: Be careful, or the metal will ball up.
glosses: To become ball-shaped.
examples: text: Her son balls up in fear whenever there is a storm.
glosses: To hunch over and pull in one's arms and legs.
examples: text: The best man balled up his speech, stammering and tripping over his words.
text: "They got it all balled up the night I seen it," says Bishop. "The actors forgot their lines and a man couldn't make heads or tails of it."
ref: 1916, Ring W. Lardner, “Three Kings and a Pair”, in The Saturday Evening Post:
text: It's the fuel pumps. Some character has balled up the lot.
ref: 1967 September 9, Kit Pedlar and Gerry Davis, The Tomb of the Cybermen episode 2, spoken by Captain Hopper:
synonyms: word: balls up
word: crab
word: ball up
word: blight
word: botch
word: bugger up
word: bungle
word: dirty
word: undo
word: disrupt
word: disturb
word: fuck up
word: jack up
word: mar
word: mess up
word: mishandle
word: mommick
word: pollute
word: put a crimp in
word: queer
word: ruin
word: screw up
word: sour
word: spoil
word: stain
word: upset
word: turn upside down
word: upset the applecart
word: vitiate
glosses: To ruin or botch.
examples: text: Nah bro, I ain't tryna ball up tonight. I gotta focus on my studies.
text: someone give those mans snapping themselves balling up on their sc story a hug bro they're just lonely
ref: 2018 December 11, @artemnooo, Twitter, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2023:
text: God I fucking hate weed. I wish I didn't start smoking!!! Shit is an addiction🤢 I'm on my 3rd day sober and I have a loss in appetite, n lower than usual temper. Ion wanna die young lol, and to all my friends don't link me to ball up. Y'all should quit too!but I'll drink tho 😭
ref: 2020 November 1, @_eLEEvated, Twitter, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2023:
text: In Toronto, we literally have balling up rules.
ref: 2022 May 15, theofficialplushh, TikTok, archived from the original on 19 May 2023:
text: Why would u want to ball up in the restaurant? Smoking and eating dont mix and its better to smoke before anyway.
ref: 2022 December 23, u/StickyIgloo, “RESTAURANTS TO BALL UP IN?”, in Reddit, r/Torontology, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2023:
text: stop trying to make him quit let him ball up one day hes gonna get so high hes gonna be scared to ball up
ref: 2023 September 30, u/Eletric_Degle, “I just caught my 14 year old lil bro balling up”, in Reddit, r/Torontology, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2023:
glosses: To smoke marijuana.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To play basketball, especially playing well.
topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
antonyms: ball down
glosses: To switch to using a stronger bowling ball.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: To become covered in damp snow.
raw_tags: of skis
glosses: To produce a lip of debris around the drill hole.
raw_tags: of a drill
glosses: To become confused or discombobulated; to confuse (someone).