ball-breaker

noun

ball-break·er

variants: or less commonly ball breaker

plural ball-breakers also ball breakers

Definition of ball-breaker

1 : skull cracker

2 informal + sometimes offensive : ballbuster When he was sober, he was an okay guy, but when he'd had a few too many Pabst Blue Ribbons, he was a major ball breaker.— James O. Born, Field of Fire, 2007

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