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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bollocks
noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be the dog's bollocks
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Maybe so, but this is bollocks.
▪ On the radio whenever Leeds have possession they seem to waffle on about a load of bollocks.
▪ Today is the day for those who think the election is a load of old bollocks to register their presence.
▪ We bet the Marquis De Sade never had to put up with bollocks like that.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bollocks

bollocks \bollocks\ v. to make a mess of.

Syn: botch, fumble, botch up, muff, blow it, flub, screw up, ball up, blunder, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bollocks

"testicles," 1744, see bollix. In British slang, as an ejaculation meaning "nonsense," recorded from 1919.

Wiktionary
bollocks

Etymology 1 alt. 1 (context transitive British taboo slang English) To break. 2 (context transitive British taboo slang English) (''also bollocks up'') To fail (a task); to make a mess of. interj. (context British taboo slang English) Expressing anger, frustration, etc. n. 1 (context British vulgar English) The testicles (''sometimes used in the singular'') 2 (context British vulgar English) Nonsense or information deliberately intended to mislead. 3 (context Ireland vulgar English) An idiot, an ignorant or disagreeable person. 4 (context British vulgar English) A contraction of '''dog's bollocks'''. vb. 1 (context transitive British taboo slang English) To break. 2 (context transitive British taboo slang English) (''also bollocks up'') To fail (a task); to make a mess of. Etymology 2

vb. (en-third-person singular of: bollock)

WordNet
bollocks

v. make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: botch, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up]

Wikipedia
Bollocks

"Bollocks" is a word of Middle English origin, meaning " testicles". The word is often used figuratively in British English and Hiberno-English as a noun to mean "nonsense", an expletive following a minor accident or misfortune, or an adjective to mean "poor quality" or "useless". Similarly, the common phrases "Bollocks to this!" or "That's a load of old bollocks" generally indicate contempt for a certain task, subject or opinion. Conversely, the word also figures in idiomatic phrases such as "the dog's bollocks", "top bollock(s)", or more simply "the bollocks" (as opposed to just "bollocks"), which will refer to something which is admired, approved of or well-respected.

Usage examples of "bollocks".

The only scenario that did bring me out in a sweat was the possibility of having my bollocks cut off.

It went without saying that this was a load of old bollocks, but I had to appear as compliant as I could without actually giving anything away.

Cos if it does they'll be using your bollocks for target practice down at Bisley.

This immunity he seems to claim, this mission he says he's onit's all bollocks.

They'd been given sets of body armor and were going through big decisions about what to do with it--whether to sit on it so they didn't get their bollocks shot off, or actually wear it so they didn't get shot in the chest.

None of this "No, it's Okay, skipper, I can go on" bollocks, because if you try to play the he-man and don't inform people of your injuries, you're endangering the whole patrol.

I had visions of concentration camps and electrodes clamped to my bollocks.

I put my head down and brought my knees up, crouching forward to protect my bollocks.

He had all this Gucci kit on, and it was obvious he saw himself as a really smart, tasty geezer, but in fact he looked like a bag of bollocks.

I spouted off any old bollocks, just to show I was confused and didn't really know what was going on or why I was there.

It was the early hours of the morning and we could sense the guards' attitude: "We're bollocksed, you're bollocksed, we have to look after you, let's just do it without any problems.

We'd heard the horror stories during the Iran-Iraq war, and the thought now crossed my mind that this was it: Here we go, it's time for the old chop your bollocks off routine, followed by ears, fingers, and toes, all nice and slow.

If I did tell them and they found out it was another load of old bollocks, then I might be committing everybody to going through this system again, and they would die.

All the stuff about wounded signals operators was a load of bollocks--a good bluff that had got me to gob off.

Or Luhaine will claim I've traded my bollocks for outright, shrinking fainthearted ness.