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balls about en · VERB

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Meanings

1. (UK, slang, vulgar) To engage in a lot of activity with many unwanted or unnecessary details.
   • All that ballsing about for nothing. 1977, J. M. Henegan, Pulse, page 80:
   • This is just comfortable. I don't want no ballsing about with rows and noise in flats. 1957, Reports of the Institute of Community Studies - Volume 2:
   • If we can render them [ICJP] ineffective now, then we leave the way clear for a direct approach without all the ballsing about. 1990, Padraig O'Malley, Biting at the Grave, page 98:
2. (UK, slang, vulgar) To bullshit; to speak or act as a joke or with no real point.
   • 'You're on the front page of the Irish News.' 'Are you ballsing about?' 2003, Sam Millar, On the Brinks, →ISBN, page 271:

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