Yarblockos

//jɑː(ɹ)blɒkəʊs// noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Testicles; bollocks. augmentative, mildly, plural, plural-only, rare, slang, vulgar
  2. 2
    Courage, fortitude, or machismo. figuratively, mildly, plural, plural-only, rare, slang, uncountable, vulgar

    "The police, only barely adept at directing automated traffic, need an action hero to contain Snipes. But the only one around with yarblockos of sufficient mettle—Sly, of course, as former tough-guy cop Sgt. John Spartan—has himself been on ice for the last 25 or 30 years."

Example

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"The police, only barely adept at directing automated traffic, need an action hero to contain Snipes. But the only one around with yarblockos of sufficient mettle—Sly, of course, as former tough-guy cop Sgt. John Spartan—has himself been on ice for the last 25 or 30 years."

Etymology

From Russian яблоко (jabloko, “apple”); coined by Anthony Burgess in 1962, when he introduced it within the invented slang Nadsat found in his dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange.

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