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2. Noun. (slang) The testicles. ¹

3. Noun. (slang) Bravery, courage, chutzpah, or brazenness. ¹

4. Noun. (British slang) Rubbish, nonsense. ¹

5. Verb. (third-person singular of ball) ¹

6. Adverb. (slang) Very. (non-gloss definition Intensifier.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Balls

1. ball [v] - See also: ball

Lexicographical Neighbors of Balls

Literary usage of Balls

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by Cincinnati (Ohio), Board of Education, Cincinnati Public Schools, Cincinnati (Ohio). Board of Education (1883)
"They then give the reverse (Five balls are one ball aud four balls). They next separate five balls into three balls and two balls (Five balls are three ..."

2. Transactions by American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Metallurgical Society of AIME, Society of Mining Engineers of AIME., Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (U.S.). (1920)
"Since these small balls do very little crushing, and exclude ore and larger balls from the mill, if allowed to accumulate too long, a marked decrease in ..."

3. The Advanced Part of A Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid Bodies by Edward John Routh (1905)
"One consequence of regarding the impulses at B and A as consecutive is that we may use Euler's theorem on spherical balls (Vol. i. Art. 326). ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"6 The red ball must be first struck, and the remainder of the balls are played up to the holes—the sum total of the holes made being the striker's score. 6. ..."

5. Isis Unveiled: A Master-key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1892)
"The change of the balls of clay into balls of fire would be understood by ... Does this change into balls of " pure divine fire " signify a continuous ..."

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