ALL meanings of balls-up
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B b - noun balls-up a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball. 1
- noun balls-up a round or roundish body, of various sizes and materials, either hollow or solid, for use in games, as baseball, football, tennis, or golf. 1
- noun balls-up a game played with a ball, especially baseball: The boys are out playing ball. 1
- noun balls-up Baseball. a pitched ball, not swung at by the batter, that does not pass over home plate between the batter's shoulders and knees. 1
- noun balls-up Military. a solid, usually spherical projectile for a cannon, rifle, pistol, etc., as distinguished from a shell. projectiles, especially bullets, collectively. 1
- noun balls-up any part of a thing, especially of the human body, that is rounded or protuberant: the ball of the thumb. 1
- noun balls-up a round mass of food, as of chopped meat, dough, or candy. 1
- noun balls-up Slang: Vulgar. a testis. 1
- noun balls-up balls, Slang: Vulgar. boldness; courage; brashness. nonsense (often used as an interjection). 1
- noun balls-up bolus (def 1). 1
- noun balls-up Horticulture. a compact mass of soil covering the roots of an uprooted tree or other plant. 1
- noun balls-up Literary. a planetary or celestial body, especially the earth. 1
- noun balls-up 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. 1
- verb with object balls-up to make into a ball (sometimes followed by up): The children were balling up snow to make a snowman. 1
- verb with object balls-up to wind into balls: to ball cotton. 1
- verb with object balls-up Slang: Vulgar. to have sexual intercourse with. 1
- verb without object balls-up to form or gather into a ball: When the spun sugar balls, the candy has cooked sufficiently. 1
- verb without object balls-up Slang: Vulgar. to have sexual intercourse. 1
- idioms balls-up ball the jack, Slang. to act with speed. to stake everything on one attempt. 1
- idioms balls-up carry the ball, to assume the responsibility; bear the burden: You can always count on him to carry the ball in an emergency. 1
- idioms balls-up drop the ball, to make a mistake or miss an opportunity at a critical moment. 1
- idioms balls-up keep the ball rolling, to continue or give renewed vigor to an activity already under way: When their interest lagged, he tried to keep the ball rolling. 1
- idioms balls-up on the ball, alert and efficient or effective: If you don't get on the ball, you'll be fired. indicating intelligence or ability: The tests show your students don't have much on the ball. The new manager has a lot on the ball. 1
- idioms balls-up play ball, to begin or continue playing a game. to start or continue any action. to work together; cooperate: union leaders suspected of playing ball with racketeers. 1
- idioms balls-up run with the ball, to assume responsibility or work enthusiastically: If management approves the concept, we'll run with the ball. 1
- idioms balls-up start the ball rolling, to put into operation; begin: The recreation director started the ball rolling by having all the participants introduce themselves. 1
- noun balls-up (Idiomatic) (Britain, vulgar) something which becomes muddled or botched in some way. 0