Balls vs Halls - What's the difference?
balls | halls |
(slang) The testicles.
(uncountable, countable, slang) Bravery, courage, chutzpah, or brazenness.
(British, slang) Rubbish, nonsense.
(UK, Ireland, slang) A balls-up; a botched job.
(ball)
(slang) Very.
(UK, uncountable) student accommodation
* 2004 , anonymous student, quoted in K Woodley, "Let the data sing: representing discourse in poetic form", Oral History volumes 31-32, page 49
* 2008 , Anshuman Ahmed Mondal, Young British Muslim Voices , page 15
* 2009 , anonymous Disability Advisor, quoted in Supporting people with autism through adulthood , National Audit Office, page 30
* 2010 , Julius Falconer, Tempt Not the Stars , page 127
As nouns the difference between balls and halls
is that balls is plural of lang=en while halls is plural of hall.As a verb balls
is third-person singular of ball.As an adverb balls
is very. Intensifier.balls
English
Noun
(head)- Can you believe he can juggle six balls at once?
- Dude, he got hit in the balls !
- 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)
- That's a load of balls .
- Don't make a balls of it!
Derived terms
* ballsy * bust one's balls * bust someone's balls * have someone by the ballsVerb
(head)Adverb
(-)- It is balls cold out there.
halls
English
Noun
(head)- He was chatting to a couple of girls so I went over and introduced myself, said, "Hello, I er... I’m in the same halls as you." He just looked at me and said, "And?"
- 'I had a massive argument with my parents about moving into halls' and they even tried to bribe me a bit and said, "You know, if you don't go into '''halls''' we'll give you the money that you would have paid in ' halls as a gift."
- Once B started University he did really well; the structured environment provided by his university suited him well and he loved it so much that by the end of the first term he decided he did want to live in halls after all.
- 'Yes. The first year he was in halls but was glad to leave for digs after that.'