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blue balls

American  

[bloo bawlz] / ˈblu ˌbɔlz /

plural noun

Slang: Vulgar.

1. a painful condition of the testes and scrotum arising when sexual arousal is not followed by orgasm, as when stimulation is interrupted before climax can occur.

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Etymology

Origin of blue balls

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

It consists of a series of bluffing calls, experience soon teaching that it is safer to call three or four on a weak hand than to allow your adversary to take the lead.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis