Meaning

(slang, vulgar) Testicles..

Definitions by Sense

1. (slang, vulgar) Testicles.
2. (slang, mildly vulgar, figurative, uncountable) Courage, fortitude, or machismo.
3. (slang, mildly vulgar, euphemistic, uncountable) Nonsense; something of unacceptably poor quality.
4. (slang, mildly vulgar, euphemistic, uncountable) Information that is false or otherwise misleading.
5. (colloquial, euphemistic, possibly vulgar) Expressing disgust, annoyance, frustration, or disapproval.

Example Sentences

"Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly, thou."

I mean, who could ever forget the touching moment in [The] Monster Squad when a pre-teenager kicks the Wolfman in the nuts and utters the classic line "The Wolfman has yarbles!"

"I'm not worried. This kid's got giant yarbles." "Giant yarbles make bigger targets," I say. "Maybe he ought to wear more than a loincloth." Ockham laughs. Slaps me on the back. "Didn't know you had a sense of humor, chief."

Well, my droogs, this is a load of yarbles. Right now at New World Stages, a risible British adaptation of A Clockwork Orange is doing a bit of the old ultraviolence to its audience.

James Brown looked a tool on C4's Withnail Weekend. Brown's crew at Loaded was credited with inventing the Withnail drinking game "I Demand to Have Some Booze". Utter yarbles. Fact: the game, where viewers simultaneously enjoy beverages identical to those consumed by characters on screen, was introduced by a journalist on the Evening Standard's London Life section in the mid-1980s.

"God knows, does He?" grinned Andy, unfazed. "Why hasn't He struck me dead then, kiddo?" Chris looked at him. "Just because He hasn't yet doesn't mean He won't. I hope I'm not standing next to you when it happens, that's all." "Yarbles!"

"Oh, yarbles," Micky whispered. "This really is a bitch, isn't it?"

Word Forms

• yarble
• yarblockos

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