# Um, poodle balling? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 31, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663 "2006-03-31T04:37:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/41 "2006-03-31T19:29:28Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > She didn’t say if she was into [Mushroomstamping](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mushroomstamp) did she? > > Did she get a [Bilbo Baggins](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bilbo+baggins)? Ah. Mushroomstamping. AKA “mushroom tattoo”. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/42 "2006-03-31T19:50:51Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > The above are all examples of how I’ve always heard “ballin” used, both in real life and in rap songs, movies, etc. Perhaps in previous generations the slang had something to do with sex, but I can honestly say that I’ve never heard the word used in a sexual context. ‘To ball’ definitely meant ‘to have intercourse with’ in the '70s and '80s. I remember a joke: A woman calls a psychiatrist. ‘Doctor, you have to help my daughter. She wants to lose her hair!’ The psychiatrist asks how she knows. ‘I heard her on the phone when she was talking to a friend. She said she wanted to get bald soon!’ Of course a ball is also a fancy party. This leads to ‘having a ball’, and ‘to ball’, which means ‘to have a good time’. _Good golly, Miss Molly! Well, you sure like to ball…_ And then there’s _A Cool Christmas_, which has the line ‘And with that red nose he looked like a baller.’ ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/43 "2006-03-31T20:01:53Z")
Well, poodle balling means trimming your poodle’s fur into a ball or pom-pom. In horticulture it means doing the same thing to a topiary. I think the writers just thought is sounded naughty. Now it’s up to us to come up with a good definition, ex post facto. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/44 "2006-03-31T20:08:43Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > Well, poodle balling means trimming your poodle’s fur into a ball or pom-pom. In horticulture it means doing the same thing to a topiary. I think the writers just thought is sounded naughty. > > Now it’s up to us to come up with a good definition, ex post facto. Agreed. If I were to be pressed to come up with a definition, it’d include using spooge to style the gal’s hair…possibly after a good, old-fashioned skunkin’. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/45 "2006-03-31T20:53:08Z")
> [@Least Original User Name Ever](#): > > Agreed. If I were to be pressed to come up with a definition, it’d include using spooge to style the gal’s hair…possibly after a good, old-fashioned skunkin’. I’ve…uhh…heard that it makes a decent conditioner. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/46 "2006-03-31T21:21:10Z")
It always meant “fucking” when I was a teenager. Isn’t there a song lyric that uses the term? Damn…It’s hell getting old and senile. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/47 "2006-03-31T21:40:03Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > It always meant “fucking” when I was a teenager. Isn’t there a song lyric that uses the term? Damn…It’s hell getting old and senile. “Loose Lucy is my delight She comes runnin’ and we ball all night.” -Grateful Dead, _Loose Lucy_ That’s the first one that came to mind, but I’m sure there are tons of others. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/48 "2006-03-31T21:51:24Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > “Loose Lucy is my delight > She comes runnin’ and we ball all night.” > -Grateful Dead, _Loose Lucy_ > > That’s the first one that came to mind, but I’m sure there are tons of others. Thank you! Geezers rule! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/49 "2006-03-31T21:55:49Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > Thank you! Geezers rule! Come over here so I can whack you with my cane! ::grumbles:: Damn kids today have no respect at all, I tell ya! ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slip\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f475e1/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slip\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slip_1)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/50 "2006-03-31T22:09:57Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > So I’m sitting here, watching Britney Spears on Will and Grace, and she yells out that she’s a hardcore lesbian that’s into leather play, butch black women, skunking, and poodle ballin. > > Later, Karen says that she and her husband don’t even get to skunk or poodle ball anymore. So sad. ☹ > > After some searching, we uncovered the following definition of “skunking”: “SKUNKING: When you getting head, and just as you are about to shoot your load, you pull out and shoot down the center of her head, making her look like a skunk.” > > Is this about right? > > But the real question: what the hell is “poodle-ballin”? Inquiring minds must know! OK … I give. I thought this would be a relatively easy one to find, but of course everyone on here knows about [urbandictionary.com](http://urbandictionary.com) too :smack: Didn’t find anything about the two words together, and I’d think that it was a sexual reference (since all the rest of them are). However, the dictionary gives a number of “near miss” choices. “Gettin’ some poodle” is my best shot - which is sexual intercourse with a “rich, stuck-up, and/or white bitch”. Sounds vaguely like Karen to me :rolleyes: A close second is that poodle also allegedly means, er, feminine nether-regions. Otherwise, feminine acting males? posers? (though I can’t see Karen hangin’ with many posers) So, hell if I know 😕 but worth a shot. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/51 "2006-03-31T22:15:03Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Come over here so I can whack you with my cane! > > ::grumbles:: > > Damn kids today have no respect at all, I tell ya! I can say “geezer” cuz I IS a geezer. Ya whippersnapper! ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/52 "2006-03-31T22:16:00Z")
[Poodle Balling](http://artfulpups.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=A&Product_Code=wh_happyBallParkChip) ---
**Author:** ![Seren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Seren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seren)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/53 "2006-03-31T22:21:34Z")
I’ve found that there’s a song called “Let me play with your poodle.” I’m convinced this is the key to cracking this whole mystery wide-open. However, I can’t find the lyrics. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/54 "2006-03-31T22:39:21Z")
Perhaps poodle balling is related to the dreaded rear admiral. ---
**Author:** ![Hombre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@Hombre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hombre)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/55 "2006-03-31T22:48:54Z")
Why should it mean anything other than having fun with your lapdog? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/56 "2006-03-31T22:57:54Z")
> [@Least Original User Name Ever](#): > > Agreed. If I were to be pressed to come up with a definition, it’d include using spooge to style the gal’s hair…possibly after a good, old-fashioned skunkin’. I like this definition the best so far. Sort of like how little kids use their shampoo to give themselves a mohawk, except dirty. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/57 "2006-03-31T23:27:46Z")
As I said, I fully agree that the word likely had a different definition “back in the day,” but coming out of 22 (er, maybe 23?) year old Britney’s mouth, I’m inclined to believe it would be writtein the more modern aspect. Perhaps we should contact Kevin Federline. Oh! Or maybe the pavorattis that are always chasing him? Surely one of them will know, seeing that Kevin is the bastion of hip hop lingo that he is. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/58 "2006-03-31T23:31:34Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > Or maybe the pavorattis that are always chasing him? He’s being chased by opera tenors? :dubious: (I think you meant Paparazzi) ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/59 "2006-03-31T23:48:46Z")
No, my little friend. I was quoting the greatest lyricist of our time: Kevin Federline. [Le Cite](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=7&entry_id=1616) : > [@The Ever Brilliant K-Fed](#): > > Back then they called me K-Fed / But you can call me Daddy instead… > But maybe baby you can wait and see/ Until then all these Pavarottis followin’ me. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663/60 "2006-03-31T23:49:21Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > Thank you! Geezers rule! Don’t let the grey beard fool you - I’m only 30. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-poodle-balling/350663.md?page=4)