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balls

/bɔːlz/ verb C2
  1. Speaking or acting with bravado to achieve (something) (transitive)
  2. To engage in sexual intercourse. (slang)

He/she/it ballses · Past ballsed · Past participle ballsed · -ing form ballsing

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Verb forms

Base form
balls
He/she/it
ballses
Past
ballsed
Past participle
ballsed
-ing form
ballsing

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It was, indeed, a great yellow Wildcat, and the Woodman thought it must be chasing something, for its ears were lying close to its head and its mouth was wide open, showing two rows of ugly teeth, while its red eyes glowed like balls of fire.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 51 · B2
Three gilt balls and a brown board with “JABEZ WILSON” in white letters, upon a corner house, announced the place where our red-headed client carried on his business.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 19 · B2
Mary petitioned for the use of the library at Netherfield; and Kitty begged very hard for a few balls there every winter.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 330 · B2
Almost a month having elapsed since the liniment cake episode, it was high time for her to get into fresh trouble of some sort, little mistakes, such as absentmindedly emptying a pan of skim milk into a basket of yarn balls in the pantry instead of into the pigs’ bucket, and walking clean over the edge of the log bridge into the brook while wrapped in imaginative reverie, not really being worth counting.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 173 · C1

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