balling
Shaping into rounds
Balling can mean forming into balls: balling up socks, balling the dough.
In vulgar slang, balling means having sex: They were balling all weekend.
The expression balling out means spending lavishly or living extravagantly, while balling your eyes out means crying hard—tears rolling like balls down the face.
Team sport with hoops
- hoopingSpinning rings around torso
- streetballInformal outdoor basketball
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
- dribblingBall-handling with repeated touches
shooting · dunking · layup · crossover · handles · swish · rim · backboard
Abundance of valuable resources
- affluenceAbundance of money
- opulenceShowy, abundant prosperity
- extravaganceExcessive, wasteful spending
- lavishnessExcessive richness or abundance
bling · flashy · stunting · flexing · high-roller · VIP · designer · swanky
Violent pulls apart
- weepingShedding tears audibly
- sobbingConvulsive crying aloud
- bawlingCrying noisily and hard
- wailingProlonged mournful crying
sniffling · whimpering · blubbering · red-eyed · heartbroken · distraught · emotional · upset
basketball
Team sport with hoops
- hoopingSpinning rings around torso
- streetballInformal outdoor basketball
- courtTrial venue or sports surface
dribbling · shooting · dunking · layup · crossover · handles · swish · rim · backboard · three-pointer
wealth
Abundance of valuable resources
- affluenceAbundance of money
- opulenceShowy, abundant prosperity
- extravaganceExcessive, wasteful spending
lavishness · bling · flashy · stunting · flexing · high-roller · VIP · designer · swanky · champagne
tears
Violent pulls apart
wailing · sniffling · whimpering · blubbering · red-eyed · heartbroken · distraught · emotional · upset · anguish
sphere
Perfectly round solid
forming · kneading · scooping · meatballs · dumplings · truffles · snowballs · yarn · twine · clay
- basketball slangairball, alley-oop, ankle breaker, ballin, brick
- clumping actionsclotting, curdling, coagulating, congealing, lumping
- fiber craftsyarn, wool, cotton, silk, linen
- melon prepslicing, dicing, cubing, scooping, seeding
- colony behaviorswarming, foraging, division of labor, caste system, food storage
- pelletizingpellet mill, pelleting, wood pellets, fish feed, animal feed
ballingflattening
Reducing to evenness
spreading · unrolling · smoothing · unfurling · stretching
ballingstruggling
Experiencing serious difficulty
broke · starving · slumming · scraping by · penny-pinching
ballinglaughing
Making sounds of amusement
keeping it together · beaming · rejoicing · celebrating · smiling
- go ballisticLose temper violently
- going ballisticBecoming extremely angry suddenly
- balling upCompressing into spheres
- goes ballisticLoses control explosively
- ballistic missilesSelf-propelled guided munitions
- ballistic vestsGarments deflecting ammunition