"balls on" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: EN-AU ck1 balls on.ogg [Australia] Forms: ballses on [present, singular, third-person], ballsing on [participle, present], ballsed on [participle, past], ballsed on [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} balls on (third-person singular simple present ballses on, present participle ballsing on, simple past and past participle ballsed on)
  1. (British, Australia, New Zealand, slang, vulgar, intransitive) To blather. Tags: Australia, British, New-Zealand, intransitive, slang, vulgar

Inflected forms

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