bollock
(transitive, UK, Ireland, vulgar) To reprimand severely and grossly.
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Jimmy Bollock is leaning into the smear campaign.
If I had talked openly about being a poster on 8chan, a site that exists because 4chan banned child pornography, I'm not sure I'd have the gall to talk about things other people have liked on social media. But then I…
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(transitive, UK, Ireland, vulgar) To reprimand severely and grossly.
The boss bollocked me for coming in late.
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(UK, Ireland, vulgar, chiefly, in the plural) A testicle.
You've got a bollock hanging out of your shorts.
“Jimmy Bollock is leaning into the smear campaign.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“If I had talked openly about being a poster on 8chan, a site that exists because 4chan banned child pornography, I'm not sure I'd have the gall to talk about things other people have liked on social media. But then I don't have the false confidence of a Jimmy Bollock”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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- bollocking92%
(UK, Ireland, vulgar) A severe reprimand.
- bollocking83%
British and Irish slang for a severe verbal dressing-down, typically from a superior to a subordinate. Getting a bollocking is considerably worse than a simple reprimand. Widely used in workplaces, the military, and sports contexts; while vulgar in origin, it has a workaday acceptability in informal British speech.
- bollocked mode76%
A state of being severely told off, punished, or in deep trouble — used in British slang contexts to describe the period after getting a serious dressing-down from a boss, parent, or authority figure. Implies total shutdown, sheepishness, and lying low after a public or private scolding.
- rollicking75%
(UK) A scolding, a bollocking.