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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
balls
I.interjection
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
balls
▪ That guy has balls.
keep several/too many etc balls in the air
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Finally 1 let Augie pitch balls to me and tried batting them.
▪ His wife, Shirley, handed out the prizes-golf shirts, gloves, balls, umbrellas.
▪ Ours is a friendship based on an eccentric love of glass balls, an exchange of a few photographs.
▪ Take the pictures of dancers, shot at events such as New Year's Eve balls at luxury hotels.
▪ The next day I bring her two other glass balls, very beautiful ones.
▪ The only gala performers currently scheduled to perform at inaugural balls the following night are Estefan, Franklin and Yearwood.
▪ Trolley passengers will be shielded from errant golf balls by 12-foot - high fencing and netting on both sides.
▪ Using a rounded teaspoon, shape dough into 1-inch balls.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
balls

balls \balls\, interj. nonsense.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
balls

"testicles," early 14c., from plural of ball (n.1). See also ballocks. Meaning "courage, nerve" is from 1928. Balls to the wall, however, probably is from World War II Air Forces slang, from the ball that topped the aircraft throttle, thrust to the bulkhead of the cockpit to attain full speed. Ball-busting "difficult" is first recorded 1944; ball-buster, disparaging for "dominant female," is from 1974.

Wiktionary
balls

adv. (context slang English) very. (non-gloss definition: Intensifier.) n. 1 (plural of ball English) 2 (context slang English) The testicles. 3 (context uncountable countable slang English) bravery, courage, chutzpah, or brazenness. 4 (context British slang English) rubbish, nonsense. 5 (context UK Ireland slang English) A balls-up; a botched job. vb. (en-third-person singular of: ball)

Wikipedia
Balls (Sparks album)

Balls is the 18th album by the American rock band Sparks, released in 2000.

"It's a Knockoff" was recorded for the movie Knock Off, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, directed by the acclaimed Hong Kong based producer/director Tsui Hark (who had appeared on his own tribute song by the band on the album Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins). It is featured over the closing credits.

Balls (EP)

Balls is the second EP by the Huntington Beach, California punk rock band Guttermouth, released in 1991 by Dr. Strange Records. It is currently out of print, however all of the tracks were re-issued on the CD re-releases of the band's debut album Full Length LP in 1992 and 1996.

Balls (Elizabeth Cook album)

Balls is the third major-label album of country music singer Elizabeth Cook. It was released May 1, 2007 via Emergent Records. The album includes the single "Sometimes It Takes Balls to Be a Woman", which did not chart. The title track was however nominated for Song of the Year at the 2007 Americana Music Awards.

Balls (TV channel)

Balls was a Filipino cable television network based in Quezon City. It was notable for being the country's first local high-definition TV channel. It was owned and operated by ABS-CBN Cable Channels. The network shows notable sports telecast from the Philippines and abroad, as well as other sports related programming. The local contents of Balls are produced and licensed by ABS-CBN Sports.

Balls (mountain range)

The Balls are a mountain range within the Sierra Nevada, in Madera County, California. They are "glacier-carved granite domes" and have been described as "looking like smooth scoops of butterscotch ice cream". They are protected in the Sierra National Forest.

Balls (film)

Balls (Swedish: Farsan) is a 2010 Swedish comedy film that was directed by Josef Fares.

Usage examples of "balls".

Since each Combatant's team knows only their own Situation-profile and total available megatonnage and since even out in the four-court theater the stockpiled warheads are hidden from view inside the identical white plastic cast-off industrial-solvent buckets all academies and serious players use for drill-balls125 there can be a lot of poker-facing about response-resolve, willingness to go SACPOP, nonnegotiable interests, EM-pulse-immunity, distribution of strategic forces, and commitment to geopolitical ideals.

There was the matter of the withered-looking and bradyauxetic arms, which just as in a hair-raising case of Volk-mann's contracture115 curled out in front of his thorax in magiscule S's and were usable for rudimentary knifeless eating and slapping at doorknobs until they sort of turned just enough and doors could be kicked open and forming a pretend lens-frame to scout scenes through, plus maybe tossing tennis balls very short distances to players who wanted them, but not for much else, though the arms were impressively almost familial-dysautonomically pain-resistant, and could be pinched, punctured, singed, and even compressed in a basement optical-device-securing viselike thing by Mario's older brother Orin without effect or complaint.

I have never before faced Dymphna in tournament play, nor played with the sonic balls the blind require, but I watched him barely dispatch Petropolis Kahn in the Round of 16, and I know he is mine.

There are the sad tiny distant-champagne-cork sounds of scores of balls being hit down at the East Courts.

Enormous ATHSCME displacement fans far up north at the wall and border's distant roar and the outdoor voices and pock of cold balls create a kind of sound-carpet below the digestive sounds of the vaporizer and the squeak of Troeltsch's bedsprings as he thrashes and twitches in a moist half-sleep.

Weeds-of-tumbling like enormous hairballs rolled often across the Interstate Highway of I-10 far below.

Hal, Stice, Troeltsch, Struck, Rader, and Beak are all rhythmically squeezing tennis balls with their racquet-hands, as per Academy mandate.

John Wayne's over me, and I'm over Struck and Shaw, who two years back were both over me but under Troeltsch and Schacht, and now are over Troeltsch who as of today is over Freer who's substantially over Schacht, who can't beat anyone in the room except Pemulis since his knee and Crohn's Disease got so much worse, and is barely hanging on in terms of ranking, and is showing incredible balls just hanging on.

He eyeballs me right square in the eye and says it's about how to reach down into parts of yourself you didn't know were there and get down in there and live inside these parts.

Its' sub 0 snow and hes' in a leather spring coat and stoal and brown wig thats' not as good as a hat and hell' freeze his low profile balls off and C was tryng to smile and he told Dr.

Get a ball from the cheap green plastic laundry basket of old used balls I keep there by the propane torches and use to practice the occasional serve, Jimbo.

Than no talent to fritter in the first place, lying around guzzling because I haven't the balls to .

This is a yellow iron-mesh Ball-Hopper full of dirty green dead old balls.

Make a mess of balls along the base of the opposite fence as the sun hauls itself up over the Harbor and a thin sweat breaks and the serves start to boom.

Here is the set of keys a stride's length before you in the court as you serve dead balls to no one.