"bust someone's balls" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "busts someone's balls",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "busting someone's balls",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "busted someone's balls",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "busted someone's balls",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Goodfellas",
          "text": "Henry: All day long I thought the guys in the helicopter were just local cops busting my balls over Lufthansa. But they turned out to be narcs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To give someone a hard time, whether by playfully teasing or sincerely harassing them."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, vulgar) To give someone a hard time, whether by playfully teasing or sincerely harassing them."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "bust one's balls"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "break someone's balls"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "vulgar"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "to give someone a hard time",
          "word": "tocar els collons"
        },
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "to give someone a hard time",
          "word": "tocar els nassos"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "prízo t' archídia",
          "sense": "to give someone a hard time",
          "word": "πρήζω τ' αρχίδια"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to give someone a hard time",
          "word": "rompere i coglioni"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to give someone a hard time",
          "word": "rompere le palle"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to give someone a hard time",
          "tags": [
            "euphemistic"
          ],
          "word": "rompere le scatole"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bust someone's balls"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "busts someone's balls",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "busting someone's balls",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "busted someone's balls",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "busted someone's balls",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "bust someone's balls (third-person singular simple present busts someone's balls, present participle busting someone's balls, simple past and past participle busted someone's balls)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "bust one's balls"
    }
  ],
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Requests for review of French translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Goodfellas",
          "text": "Henry: All day long I thought the guys in the helicopter were just local cops busting my balls over Lufthansa. But they turned out to be narcs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To give someone a hard time, whether by playfully teasing or sincerely harassing them."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, vulgar) To give someone a hard time, whether by playfully teasing or sincerely harassing them."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "break someone's balls"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to give someone a hard time",
      "word": "tocar els collons"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to give someone a hard time",
      "word": "tocar els nassos"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "prízo t' archídia",
      "sense": "to give someone a hard time",
      "word": "πρήζω τ' αρχίδια"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to give someone a hard time",
      "word": "rompere i coglioni"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to give someone a hard time",
      "word": "rompere le palle"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to give someone a hard time",
      "tags": [
        "euphemistic"
      ],
      "word": "rompere le scatole"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bust someone's balls"
}