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ball-breaker
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a ball-breaker (British & Australian, very informal!)
a woman who does not like men and is unpleasant towards them. I don't think you're going to like your new flat mate - she's a bit of a ball-breaker.

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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.
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.
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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