balled up
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It was defiance and euphoria and adrenaline just balled up into this big massive gig.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2024
Workers balled up bread for bait and threw lines over the side of the platform.
From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2023
And on the desk, near the room phone and a stamped envelope, a letter is balled up.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
Not grumbling, belly-hungry — but "stomach touching your back, every rib visible, aching, and balled up on the floor in the corner" starving.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2023
And unless it was your jacket that was balled up in Byron’s fist with a crowd of kids bunching up, you’d have to say he was pretty funny too.
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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