1. Badly mishandle or ruin something
   - botch, bodge [Brit, informal], bumble, fumble, botch up [informal], muff [informal], blow [informal], flub [N. Amer, informal], screw up [informal], spoil, muck up [informal], bungle, fluff [informal], bobble [N. Amer], mishandle, louse up [informal], foul up [informal], mess up, butcher, balls up [informal], cock up [Brit, informal], goof up [informal], make a hash of [informal]

1. Senseless talk
   "don't give me that bollocks";
   - stuff, stuff and nonsense [informal], hooey [N. Amer, informal], poppycock [informal]

1. [Brit, vulgar] One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
   "she kicked him in the bollocks and got away";
   - testis, testicle
    
2. A pulley-block at the head of a topmast
   "The sailor adjusted the bollock to raise the sail";
   - bullock block

1. Censure severely or angrily
   "The deputy bollocked the Prime Minister";
   - call on the carpet [US, informal], take to task, rebuke, rag [informal], trounce, lecture, reprimand, jaw [informal], dress down [informal], call down [informal], scold, chide, berate, bawl out [informal], chew out [N. Amer, informal], chew up [N. Amer, informal], have words, lambaste, lambast, ream [N. Amer, informal], wig [Brit, informal], carpet [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: bollocksed, bollocksing, bollockses

Type of: block, bunk [informal], criticise [Brit], criticize, damn [informal], fail, go wrong, gonad, hokum [informal], knock [informal], male reproductive gland, meaninglessness, miscarry, nonsense, nonsensicality, pick apart, pulley, pulley block, pulley-block, sex gland

Part of: family jewels [slang], lunch box [Brit, slang], male genital organ, male genitalia, male genitals, male reproductive system

Encyclopedia: Bollocks