balls

noun
/bɔːlz/

Definitions

  1. plural of ball

    • Can you believe he can juggle six balls at once?
    • W. S. Gilbert, HMS Pinafore When the balls whistle free o'er the bright blue sea / We stand to our guns all day.
  2. The testicles.

    • After that shot, his balls were really hurting!
    • *groans* My b… b… ba… balls… balls…
  3. Masculinity, particularly strength, courage, and force of will

    Masculinity, particularly strength, courage, and force of will; chutzpah; brazenness.

    • Douglas: You've got spunk. And balls. And I like that in a woman.
    • 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.
  4. + 7 more definitions
    1. Synonym of bollocks, nonsense.

      • That's a load of balls.
    2. A balls-up

      A balls-up; a botched job.

      • Don't make a balls of it!
    3. Speaking or acting with bravado to achieve (something)

      • You're going up to the front door of that mansion and ballsing your way inside.
      • The poor fuck is broken-hearted, and he thinks he is ballsing it out really well, but he isn't.
      • He was ballsing his way through the conversation. For the first time, I caught a glimpse of something vulnerable behind the usual brashness.
    4. To engage in sexual intercourse.

    5. third-person singular simple present indicative of ball

    6. Very. Intensifier.

      • It is balls cold out there.
    7. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at balls. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at balls. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at balls

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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