19th-century British slang, recorded in flash/cant dictionaries, meaning to depart quickly or at speed — possibly alluding to a cannonball or fast-rolling ball.
19th-century British slang, recorded in flash/cant dictionaries, meaning to depart quickly or at speed — possibly alluding to a cannonball or fast-rolling ball. Register is breezy and colloquial; used to express sudden, energetic departure.
When the constable rounded the corner, the whole gang balled it off down the alley.
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(slang, dated) To depart, especially quickly; to hurry away; to leave at a particular speed.
(archaic, nautical) To spin rope-yarns into balls, in preparation for making spun yarn.
(US, idiomatic, slang) ; (at) maximum speed.
(slang, vulgar, transitive) To leave (a person, usually a man) sexually frustrated by denying them an orgasm or abruptly ending sexual contact.
(slang, dated) (to leave at a particular speed).