breaking balls
Pitches that curve
Breaking balls means giving someone a hard time—teasing, mocking, or deliberately hassling them, often in a good-natured way among friends: I'm just breaking your balls, relax.
The expression draws on the vulgar sense of balls as testicles, suggesting metaphorical assault on someone's masculine dignity.
Common in American speech, especially in working-class and urban contexts.
- pitchingDelivering toward the plate
- curveSmooth, angleless line
- sinkerWeight on fishing line
- sliderAdjustable interface element
- splitterSomething that separates
deception · baseball · changeup · rotational axis · knuckleball · forkball · drag coefficient · velocity · cutter · air resistance · scouting reports · seams · sportsmanship · batter · strike zone · whiff · slurve · movement
breaking ballsfastballs
Quickest pitched deliveries
heaters · two-seam fastball · gas · heat · hard stuff
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