Definitions for balls

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balls ball

Spelling: [bawl]

IPA: /bɔl/

Balls is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in balls (ablls).

Definitions for balls

noun

1. a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere:
2. a round or roundish body, of various sizes and materials, either hollow or solid, for use in games, as baseball, football, tennis, or golf.
3. a game played with a ball, especially baseball:
4. Baseball. a pitched ball, not swung at by the batter, that does not pass over home plate between the batter's shoulders and knees.
5. Military. a solid, usually spherical projectile for a cannon, rifle, pistol, etc., as distinguished from a shell. projectiles, especially bullets, collectively.
6. any part of a thing, especially of the human body, that is rounded or protuberant:
7. a round mass of food, as of chopped meat, dough, or candy.
8. Slang: Vulgar. a testis.
9. balls, Slang: Vulgar. boldness; courage; brashness. nonsense (often used as an interjection).
10. bolus (def 1).
11. Horticulture. a compact mass of soil covering the roots of an uprooted tree or other plant.
12. Literary. a planetary or celestial body, especially the earth.
13. Mathematics. (in a metric space) the set of points whose distance from the zero element is less than, or less than or equal to, a specified number.
14. a large, usually lavish, formal party featuring social dancing and sometimes given for a particular purpose, as to introduce debutantes or benefit a charitable organization.
15. Informal. a thoroughly good time:

Idioms

1. ball the jack, Slang. to act with speed. to stake everything on one attempt.
2. carry the ball, to assume the responsibility; bear the burden:
3. drop the ball, to make a mistake or miss an opportunity at a critical moment.
4. keep the ball rolling, to continue or give renewed vigor to an activity already under way:
5. on the ball, alert and efficient or effective: indicating intelligence or ability:
6. play ball, to begin or continue playing a game. to start or continue any action. to work together; cooperate:
7. run with the ball, to assume responsibility or work enthusiastically:
8. start the ball rolling, to put into operation; begin:

Verb phrases

1. ball up, Slang. to make or become utterly confused; muddle:

verb (used with object)

1. to make into a ball (sometimes followed by up):
2. to wind into balls:
3. Slang: Vulgar. to have sexual intercourse with.

verb (used without object)

1. to form or gather into a ball:
2. Slang: Vulgar. to have sexual intercourse.

Origin of balls

1175-1225; Middle English bal, balle Old French Germanic *ballaz; compare Old Norse bǫllr, Old High German bal, ballo, balla, German Ball, Dutch bal; perhaps akin to Latin follis leather bag;

Examples for balls

While he yet spake, two balls entered his heart, and he fell dead.

If you prefer them chewy in the middle and crisp outside, chill the balls of dough.

He moved with alert assurance, lithely balanced on the balls of his feet, noiselessly.

Hell, one of the Dixie Chicks even offered to Uber her balls over to the company.

Does he have the balls to run again after someone resigns over ethical issues?

We stuffed the pink dainties with mint, and baked them in balls of clay.

The balls experimented on were a new set obtained from Mr. Bown.

Mix the cream and salt with the cheese and shape into balls.

He praised Snowden for having the “balls” to expose the crimes of the NSA.

With the bases loaded, the ultimately rational Palmer always throws every pitch at a corner--even with three balls on the batter.