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ball_out

ball out

English

Verb

ball out (third-person singular simple present balls out, present participle balling out, simple past and past participle balled out)

  1. Alternative spelling of bawl out
  2. To cry intensely; to sob or weep.
    The movie made me ball my eyes out.

Usage notes

The sob or weep definition is used almost exclusively with a pronoun and eyes as an object between ball and out (as in the above example: my eyes).