Usually means: Nonsense, foolishness; British informal term.
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  1. bollocks: Merriam-Webster
  2. bollocks: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bollocks, the bollocks: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bollocks: Vocabulary.com
  5. bollocks: Wordnik
  6. bollocks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. bollocks: Wiktionary
  8. bollocks: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bollocks: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. bollocks: Dictionary.com
  11. bollocks: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Bollocks: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. bollocks: Rhymezone
  14. bollocks: FreeDictionary.org
  15. bollocks: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. bollocks: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. bollocks: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. bollocks: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. (the) bollocks: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. The Bollocks: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See bollock as well.)

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noun:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, vulgar) The testicles (sometimes used in the singular)
noun:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, vulgar) Nonsense or information deliberately intended to mislead.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, vulgar, used as singular) An idiot, an ignorant or disagreeable person.
verb:  (transitive, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, vulgar, slang) To break.
verb:  (transitive, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, vulgar, slang) (also bollocks up) To fail (a task); to make a mess of.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, vulgar) Ellipsis of the dog's bollocks.

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