"balls about" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ballses about",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ballsing about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ballsed about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ballsed about",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "balls about (third-person singular simple present ballses about, present participle ballsing about, simple past and past participle ballsed about)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "69 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "69 31",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (about)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1957, Reports of the Institute of Community Studies - Volume 2",
          "text": "This is just comfortable. I don't want no ballsing about with rows and noise in flats.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, J. M. Henegan, Pulse, page 80",
          "text": "All that ballsing about for nothing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Padraig O'Malley, Biting at the Grave, page 98",
          "text": "If we can render them [ICJP] ineffective now, then we leave the way clear for a direct approach without all the ballsing about.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To engage in a lot of activity with many unwanted or unnecessary details."
      ],
      "id": "en-balls_about-en-verb--Beh8u7b",
      "links": [
        [
          "activity",
          "activity"
        ],
        [
          "unwanted",
          "unwanted"
        ],
        [
          "unnecessary",
          "unnecessary"
        ],
        [
          "detail",
          "detail"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly British, vulgar, slang) To engage in a lot of activity with many unwanted or unnecessary details."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "68 32",
          "word": "balls around"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "slang",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Sam Millar, On the Brinks, page 271",
          "text": "'You're on the front page of the Irish News.' 'Are you ballsing about?'",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bullshit; to speak or act as a joke or with no real point."
      ],
      "id": "en-balls_about-en-verb-c~jZVeRt",
      "links": [
        [
          "bullshit",
          "bullshit"
        ],
        [
          "speak",
          "speak"
        ],
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ],
        [
          "joke",
          "joke"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly British, vulgar, slang) To bullshit; to speak or act as a joke or with no real point."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "slang",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d7/En-au-balls_about.ogg/En-au-balls_about.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/En-au-balls_about.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "balls about"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (about)",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ballses about",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ballsing about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ballsed about",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ballsed about",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "balls about (third-person singular simple present ballses about, present participle ballsing about, simple past and past participle ballsed about)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English vulgarities"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1957, Reports of the Institute of Community Studies - Volume 2",
          "text": "This is just comfortable. I don't want no ballsing about with rows and noise in flats.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, J. M. Henegan, Pulse, page 80",
          "text": "All that ballsing about for nothing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Padraig O'Malley, Biting at the Grave, page 98",
          "text": "If we can render them [ICJP] ineffective now, then we leave the way clear for a direct approach without all the ballsing about.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To engage in a lot of activity with many unwanted or unnecessary details."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "activity",
          "activity"
        ],
        [
          "unwanted",
          "unwanted"
        ],
        [
          "unnecessary",
          "unnecessary"
        ],
        [
          "detail",
          "detail"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly British, vulgar, slang) To engage in a lot of activity with many unwanted or unnecessary details."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "slang",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English vulgarities"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Sam Millar, On the Brinks, page 271",
          "text": "'You're on the front page of the Irish News.' 'Are you ballsing about?'",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bullshit; to speak or act as a joke or with no real point."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bullshit",
          "bullshit"
        ],
        [
          "speak",
          "speak"
        ],
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ],
        [
          "joke",
          "joke"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly British, vulgar, slang) To bullshit; to speak or act as a joke or with no real point."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "slang",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d7/En-au-balls_about.ogg/En-au-balls_about.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/En-au-balls_about.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "balls around"
    }
  ],
  "word": "balls about"
}