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Balas vs Balls - What's the difference?

balas | balls |

As nouns the difference between balas and balls

is that balas is (archaic) a type of rose-coloured spinel once thought to be a form of ruby (now usually used attributively: balas-ruby ) while balls is .

balas

English

Noun

(balases)
  • (archaic) A type of rose-coloured spinel once thought to be a form of ruby (now usually used attributively: balas-ruby ).
  • Anagrams

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    balls

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • Can you believe he can juggle six balls at once?
  • (slang) The testicles.
  • Dude, he got hit in the balls !
  • (uncountable, countable, slang) Bravery, courage, chutzpah, or brazenness.
  • He must have a lot of balls to talk to his boss that way.
    He's the guy with the big balls in that group.
    You do not have the balls to go through with that.
    (Stephen Colbert)
  • (British, slang) Rubbish, nonsense.
  • That's a load of balls .
  • (UK, Ireland, slang) A balls-up; a botched job.
  • Don't make a balls of it!

    Derived terms

    * ballsy * bust one's balls * bust someone's balls * have someone by the balls

    Verb

    (head)
  • (ball)
  • Adverb

    (-)
  • (slang) Very.
  • It is balls cold out there.