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ball-breaker
(redirected from Ball-busting)

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Noun1.ball-breaker - a demanding woman who destroys men's confidence
ball-buster
adult female, woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"
2.ball-breaker - a job or situation that is demanding and arduous and punishing; "Vietnam was a ball-breaker"
ball-buster
chore, job, task - a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores"


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Instead, mostly through inattention (and his mother's insistence that he attend college rather than accept a $50,000 signing bonus to play pro baseball), Namath headed down South in 1961 to the University of Alabama, home of the legendary ball-busting coach Bear Bryant, who almost never called pass plays.
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Adds Channing: ``The thing that I liked is that he never tried to soften up my character and he never made her into the cliche of the domineering, ball-busting woman.
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Monk's Place serves as refuge and battlefield for genteel hooker Violet, her sad-sack companion Steve, illegal abortionist Doc, ball-busting beautician Leona, her overgrown boy toy Bill, and a couple of gay passersby, Quentin and Bobby.
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