balls about meaning (slang): definition, quotations

balls about

verb

UK, Slang, Vulgar To engage in a lot of activity with many unwanted or unnecessary details.

This is just comfortable. I don't want no ballsing about with rows and noise in flats.1957, Reports of the Institute of Community Studies - Volume 2:
All that ballsing about for nothing.1977, J. M. Henegan, Pulse, page 80:

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If we can render them [ICJP] ineffective now, then we leave the way clear for a direct approach without all the ballsing about.1990, Padraig O'Malley, Biting at the Grave, page 98:

UK, Slang, Vulgar To bullshit; to speak or act as a joke or with no real point.

'You're on the front page of the Irish News.' 'Are you ballsing about?'2003, Sam Millar, On the Brinks, →ISBN, page 271: