deball

English

Alternative forms

• de-ball

Etymology

From de- +‎ ball.

Pronunciation

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Verb

deball (third-person singular simple present deballs, present participle deballing, simple past and past participle deballed)

1. (transitive) To remove balls (literally or figuratively) or to emasculate.
   • 1991, Etienne, “In Enemy Hands”, in Drummer‎, number 151, page 32:

     And that's how the captain's platoon found him later that afternoon, strung up like aside of beef, dripping blood from asshole and crotch, half-dead, and de-balled, the severed nuts lying in the dust at his feet.

Translations

remove balls, emasculate

Spanish: despelotar (es)

Anagrams

• balled, da bell