Definition of blue balls
chiefly US slang
: pain of the testes and scrotum occurring after prolonged sexual arousal without orgasm
- His price for such an unselfish evening is to spend several succeeding hours in stiff-legged waddling pain we call blue balls.
- —Richard Woodley, Playboy, September 1974
- The term is blue balls, and whether a man's testicles actually turn any colors I don't know, but they can absolutely ache from the need for sexual release.
- —Ruth K. Westheimer, Sex for Dummies, 3rd edition, 2011
- Films, books and adolescent folklore are peppered with references to the pain of “blue balls,” and its link to frustrated sexual desire.
- —Sandi Doughton, New Tribune (Tacoma, Washington), 2 Oct. 2000
