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Balls vs Basketball - What's the difference?

balls | basketball |

As nouns the difference between balls and basketball

is that balls is while basketball is basketball.

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.

    basketball

    English

    (wikipedia basketball)

    Noun

  • (sports, uncountable) A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.
  • (basketball, countable) The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.

    • Synonyms

    * (sport) hoops (US slang)

    Derived terms

    * basketball player

    Related terms

    * basket