Ball-busting
ball-busting
adjective
: thanks to all those ball-busting fans out there
noun
the sapping or destruction of masculinity; nut-crunching (1970s+)
contemporary examples
likewise, murdoch and the journal edit page think obama’s old chicago hands are ball-busting geniuses.
that journal editorial michael tomasky july 4, 2012
that ball-busting $12 million woman who was the demi moore of the mid-1990s would eat this fey facsimile for lunch.
what happened to demi? gina piccalo april 14, 2010
and, of course, she’s best known for her ball-busting tour de force as ed helms’s wife in the hangover.
‘surviving jack’ star rachael harris is no longer ‘the b-tch’ kevin fallon march 26, 2014
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