blue-ball
verbEtymology From blue balls.
1
Slang, Vulgar To leave (a person, usually a man) sexually frustrated by denying them an orgasm or abruptly ending sexual contact.
- “Stop blue-balling the guy and give in already.”2009, Kate Brian, Paradise Lost, Simon & Schuster UK, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- I'm not even upset; I'm just tired of being blue-balled and tired of being rejected. It's just sad to see that I have to argue about having sex with my wife.2010, Doctor Lover, Dr. Lover, Mr. Lies: Cheating 101, E. C. Publishing (2010), unnumbered page
1 more example
- I thought it would be a good way to go out—to blue-ball him into submission and then leave, the way all of the cool girls did in the movies.2012, Zoe Fishman, Saving Ruth, William Morrow, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
2
Broadly, Idiomatic To lead someone on or tease them with the promise of something desirable without actually delivering it, causing them to feel frustrated and unsatisfied.
- Stop blue-balling me and tell me what happened!
- Derived terms
- blue-baller
- Related terms
- cock tease, cockblock, edge