Blue-ball

Quick meaning: Blue-ball is a verb meaning (by extension, idiomatic, transitive) To lead someone on or tease them with the promise of something desirable without actually delivering it, causing them to feel frustrated and unsatisfied.

Meaning

(by extension, idiomatic, transitive) To lead someone on or tease them with the promise of something desirable without actually delivering it, causing them to feel frustrated and unsatisfied.

More Meanings

1. (slang, vulgar, transitive) To leave (a person, usually a man) sexually frustrated by denying them an orgasm or abruptly ending sexual contact.

Example Sentences

Stop blue-balling me and tell me what happened!

“Stop blue-balling the guy and give in already.”

I thought it would be a good way to go out—to blue-ball him into submission and then leave, the way all of the cool girls did in the movies.

I'm not even upset; I'm just tired of being blue-balled and tired of being rejected. It's just sad to see that I have to argue about having sex with my wife.

Word Forms

• blue-balls
• blue-balling
• blue-balled
• blueball

Synonyms for blue-ball

Depending on context, synonyms include tease, tantalize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include deball, unball, blackball, last, break up, unblue.

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