bust someone's balls

verb

Definitions

  1. To give someone a hard time, whether by playfully teasing or sincerely harassing them.

    • Henry: All day long I thought the guys in the helicopter were just local cops busting my balls over Lufthansa. But they turned out to be narcs.

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